(If you are still on the TULIP list, please switch to the Loci list.) Locians, Sean Eddy (Washington U) has been developing GPL, command-line, bioinformatics programs for several years now: http://www.genetics.wustl.edu/eddy/software/ I just wrote to see if he will join the project. In any case, we may want to implement some of these programs (on top of the Loci core). I'll be back, Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro mailto:bizzaro at bc.edu Boston College Chemistry http://www.uml.edu/Dept/Chem/Bizzaro/ --