D  O  E  L  A  N


  What is it?
  -----------

  Doelan is a tool to control and validate the spoting of microarray. With
  Doelan you can create, parameter test suites to apply to your microarrays.
  Doelan generate can output html the test suites report and create a Genepix
  GAL file without the bad spots.


  The Latest Version
  ------------------

  Details of the latest version can be found on the École Normale Supérieure
  Microarray Platform web site <http://www.transcriptome.ens.fr/doelan>.


  Documentation
  -------------

  Documentation is available in HTML and PDF format, in the docs/ directory.
  For information about building and installing Doelan, see the file named
  "INSTALL" in this directory.


  Running
  -------

  You don't need to configure or update your CLASSPATH environnement variable
  and install other libraries to run Doelan. Doelan binary distribution carry 
  all the externals libraries needed. To launch Doelan, you must be in the 
  Doelan binary distribution directory and in the console type :

    - For Linux, Unix and Max OS X users :

      $sh doelan.sh

      or

      $java -jar doelan.jar

    - For Windows users

      >doelan

      or

      >java -jar doelan.jar

 You can also run Doelan by double clicking on the 'doelan.jar' file in your
 favorite file manager (i.e explorer for windows, finder for Mac OS).

 The Axon Genepix integration is more complex to enable, see the section
 'Installation for the Genepix Integration' of the chapter 1 of the
 documencation.


  Licensing
  ---------

  This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file
  named "LICENSE" in this directory.


  Thanks for using Doelan.

                          The École Normale Supérieure Microarray Platform Team
                                             <http://www.transcriptome.ens.fr/>