The zip archive contains the files strap.bat and strap.jar.
Drag them to the desktop.
To start Strap, double click strap.bat.
The jar file will disappear.
Download and extract the script file strap-linux-unix.zip.
The zip archive contains the files strap.sh and strap.jar.
Drag them to the desktop.
To start Strap, double click strap.sh.
Or start strap.sh from the command line.
The jar file will disappear.
Download and extract the file strap-macintosh.zip.
The zip archive contains three files strap.command, strap.jar and proxy-config.
Drag them to the desktop.
To start Strap, double click strap.command.
The jar file will disappear.
To change settings, open the script file
strap.
using a text editor. Find the line with the java command.
Web-Proxy: On some machines, Strap can not access the
internet. The reason is that the system
wide is not
automatically recognized by Java.
Solution:
Go to the text line with the java command and
remove any proxy-option from this line like "-probeWebProxy" or "-sysProxies".
Enter your web proxy settings directly after the java-command in the following form:
OutOfMemoryError: The parameter in the form -Xmx200M sets the maximum memory limit to 200 MByte. Increase in case of OutOfMemoryError.
The java version
The computer will search for the Java command on the hard disk according to the
PATH.
If several Java versions are installed on the machine,
a specific version can be specified with the full file path to bin/java such as
.
Strap offers some utilities.
They are activated with certain command line parameters.
Protein/alignment file conversion: Use command line options -toFasta, -toMultipleFasta, -toClustal.
Strap can be used as a text viewer for very large files with advanced search text highlighting. Use the command line option -textViewer.
Strap can be used to manage pubmed abstracts and PDF full
text. Text pattern highlighting allows text mining by eye in
large amounts of pubmed abstracts. Use the command line option
-pubmed.