Section: New Software and Platforms

GenRGenS (GENeration of Random GENomic Sequences)

Participants : Yann Ponty [correspondant] , Alain Denise.

A software dedicated to the random generation of sequences. Supports different lasses of models, including weighted context-free grammars, Markov models, ProSITE patterns... [69] GenRGenS currently ships in its 2.0 version, and consists in $\sim$25 000 lines of code in $\sim$120 Java classes.

Availability : Distributed at http://www.lri.fr/~genrgens/ since 2006 under the terms of the GPL v3 license.

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