ForCon is a user-friendly software tool for the conversion of nucleic acid and amino acid sequence alignments. Many software packages for sequence alignment and the construction of evolutionary trees have implemented their own standard of saving and reading sequence alignments. To circumvent the labourious work of manually converting alignment formats with the use of a word processor, this program was written: it converts these formats automatically.
蛋白質(zhì)與核酸序列格式并無統(tǒng)一標準，不同的數(shù)據(jù)庫與不同的程序定義了不同的格式文件，可以說是千變?nèi)f化，令人頭痛。因此，序列格式轉(zhuǎn)換程序悄然出現(xiàn)，F(xiàn)orCon 1.0便是一個出色代表。它是一個核酸與蛋白質(zhì)不同序列格式文件的轉(zhuǎn)換軟件，可雙向轉(zhuǎn)換各種常 見的多序列格式文件。ForCon 1.0支持連續(xù)序列形式與隔行序列形式，也可互相轉(zhuǎn)換。中文使用說明，506K，WORD97格式。
