How to get the values of the peak amplitude from ABI file

Question

[anderson_rici]

Hello everyone.

I'm writing a tool which needs to extract some informations from the ABI file, as the amplitudes of the peaks. Is there anyway to do this using BioJava or something?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Antonio R. Franco]

Take a look to this DOCUMENT to see if there is something interesting

[anderson_rici]

Thanks for your answer, Antonio. This doc was useful to my first solution. I used a ABI to XML converter and sought the data I needed from the tags listed in the document. It has worked well in some case but, when I tried some ABI files from other lab, those tags I used weren't there. The curious thing is that the sequencer models are the same in both cases. Maybe because the software version, I don't know. But the thing is: if it's possible to construct a chromatogram from those ABI files (without the tags with the information about the peaks), these informations are there, somewhere I don't know.