Hi, I have just been trying to annotate my first Ectocarpus gene (Esi0009_0001). And of course, I am struggling with the most basic functions: 1) View alignment: when I click on the button, Java web Start gets launched, "Checking for latest version" then I get this message: Java Web start: Download Error Unable to launch AlignView: a Sequence Alignment Viewer. Details: An error occurred while launching/running the application. Title: AlignView: A Sequence Alignment Viewer Vendor: VIB :: Plant Systems Biology :: Thomas Abeel Category: Download Error Unable to load resource: http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/webtools/alignview/alignview-0.6.jar 2) ESTs: EST is incompatible with the predicted model: is there any way to retrieve easily ESTs sequences from the annotation page, in order to check what is wrong with them (or the gene prediction? Should I do it with Artemis (see below)? 3) Artemis: I have tried to install it on my computer (PC with Windows). So far I have downloaded the file artemis.jar. My Java version is 1.5.0_08 When I double-click on it, I get the following message: Java Virtual Machine Launcher : Invalid or corrupt jar file c:\Program files\artemis.jar Can you help? Thanks a lot in advance, Claire Dr Claire GACHON Scottish Association for Marine Science Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory PA37 1QA Oban United Kingdom claire.gachon@sams.ac.uk Tel: 0044 16 31 559 318 Fax 0044 16 31 559 001 http://www.sams.ac.uk/ http://www.sams.ac.uk/research/departments/microbial-molecular/mmb-project-t... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) is registered in Scotland as a Company Limited by Guarantee (SC009292) and is a registered charity (9206). There are 2 wholly owned subsidiary companies: SAMS Research Services Ltd a Limited Company (SC224404) and the European Centre for Marine Biotechnology, a Company Limited By Guarantee (SC205318). All Companies in the group are registered in Scotland and share a registered office at Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban Argyll PA37 1QA. The content of this message may contain personal views which are not the views of SAMS unless specifically stated. Please note that all email traffic is monitored for purposes of security and spam filtering. As such individual emails may be examined in more detail. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++