Program

Technical information, change log, license & download

PHACCS:

PHACCS (PHAge Communities from Contig Spectrum) was originally developped by myself (Florent Angly) in 2004 for the Rohwer's lab at San Diego State University (SDSU) as a diploma project for my school, the Ecole Supérieure de Strabourg (ESBS).

SDSU Rohwer Lab ESBS

Basically, PHACCS rely on a mathematical core based on Matlab scripts implementing a modified Lander-Waterman algorithm. Cgi-Perl scripts are used as a bridge to a web interface.

License:

PHACCS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. A copy of it is located here.

Download:

PHACCS is registered as a Sourceforge project Sourceforge project and can be downloaded here.

SourceForge

History:

  • September 2008 - v1.07
    • - Changes to make the interface ADA compliant

  • February 2007 - v1.06
    • - Speed and memory usage improvements: benchmark
    - Introduction of three different search modes (accessible only in command line)
    Acknowledgements: Jeroen Raes and Michelle Chan, EMBL, Heidelberg

  • June 2006 - v1.05
    • - Results are saved longer and the user is advised to bookmark the result link

  • April 2006 - v1.04
    • - Support for floating point numbers (for the contig spectrum, avg. fragment length, avg. genome size and min. overlap size)

  • October 2005 - v1.03
    • - Support for big contig spectra

  • March 2005 - v1.02
    • - Small improvements of the interface and the scripts

  • January 2005 - v1.01
    • - Small improvements of the interface and the scripts

  • November 2004 - v1.00
    • - Finalization of the program and its interface

  • September 2004
    • - New improved website

  • July 2004
    • - First online working version

  • January-June 2004
    • - Development of PHACCS