[meltsim] AW: meltsim Digest, Vol 1, Issue 28

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Hi Marko.

Taofiq Paraiso contributed a version of MeltSim that runs on the 
command-line.  It is basically the Delphi version converted to 
traditional Pascal, with no GUI.  There is a simple Python GUI included. 
    I just placed it in the FTP directory (nordita-meltsim.tar.gz):

   http://ftp.bioinformatics.org/pub/meltsim/

Now, I've been having a hard time getting it to run.  I get runtime 
errors relating to how the floating point is represented.  Since Taofiq 
compiled this on a system in Germany, and I did it in the US, the "," 
vs. "." issue may be the problem.  Taofiq says he has no problems 
running it.

Let us know how it goes.

Cheers.
Jeff

Marko Pavlekovic wrote:
> -->
> 
> Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, recompiling the source code does not 
> change anything. And changing all “.” to “,” for calculation of melting 
> profile seems to work, but trying to open the files produced by MELT 
> with GRAPH still fails.  Any ideas left? I really would need the program!!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marko
> 
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:45:50 -0500
> From: "J.W. Bizzaro" <jeff at bioinformatics.org>
> Subject: Re: [meltsim] MeltSim Problems!!!
> To: General discussions about meltsim <meltsim at bioinformatics.org>
> Cc: tao at nordita.dk
> Message-ID: <41AA632E.4010407 at bioinformatics.org>
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> Hi Marko.
> 
> The binaries for the version on the MeltSim website, were compiled with
> Delphi 2 on Windows 98.  Quite a bit has changed since then, especially,
> I imagine, multi-lingual interfaces for Windows.
> 
> I think the problem *may* be resolved by recompiling MeltSim using a
> recent version of Delphi, maybe even on the German version of XP.  The
> source code for MeltSim/Windows is available:
> 
>    http://bioinformatics.org/ftp/meltsim/meltsim-win-1-0b2-source.tar.gz
> 
> And I think you can get the trial version of Delphi for free:
> 
>    http://borland.com/products/downloads/download_delphi.html#
> 
> Taofiq Paraiso <tao at nordita.dk> (CC'd) mentioned that he recently
> recompiled MeltSim.  You may want to ask him for the binaries to see if
> they work any better.
> 
> Cheers.
> Jeff
> 
> Marko Pavlekovic wrote:
>>
>>  I would like to use MeltSim Program, but unfortunately it does not work.
>>  I get all kind of error messages. I am using Win XP SP2 german version.
>>
>>  Opening a file in MELT containing nothing else but the sequence seems to
>>  work. But letting the program do its calculation it fails with the
>>  following error message: Exception EconvertError in module MELT.exe at
>>  00004A62. 40.0754is not a valid floating piont value. Now changing all
>>  *.* in Starting Temp., Final Temp., Temperature Increment and
>>  Sodium Molarity to *,* works and the program does the calculation.
>>  At the end of the calculation the program creates four files: *.log,
>>  *.mtl, *.pos and *.pro. Trying to open the files with GRAPH failes unles
>>  I change all . in these files to ,. After this GRAPH can read some
>>  of these files. Nevertheless, the graph looks completely strange and I
>>  still cannot open one file: *.pos.
>>
>>  Does anyone know a possible solution for this problem????
> 
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