About FinchTV

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Geospiza is pleased to present FinchTV (Finch Trace Viewer), a cross-platform graphical viewer for chromatogram files.  FinchTV 1.4 is designed to operate on Windows and Mac OS X for the viewing of ABI and SCF chromatogram files from the file system; it can also be used as a client program with the Geospiza Finch-Server to read, edit, and store versions of sequence data via an XML formatted FTV file. FinchTV 1.3 is designed to operate on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X for the viewing of ABI and SCF chromatogram files.  FinchTV 1.3 was developed at Geospiza, Inc. under NIH SBIR #R44 HG02244-02. FinchTV is being made freely available to the public.

Supported Systems

FinchTV 1.4 has been tested on the following systems:

Mac OS: 

10.3.9, 10.4.3

Windows: 

2000, XP

FinchTV 1.3 has been tested on the following systems:

Linux: 

Redhat: 9, Enterprise WS release 3, SuSe

Solaris:    

2.8 (Solaris 8)
 

FinchTV on Solaris requires libCstd.so.1. All Solaris 8 installs include this library except for the minimum installation cluster. The 108434 and 108435 patches will install libCstd.so.1 if SUNWlibC is installed. 

Finch Suite integration requires Finch Suite 2.16 and higher and FinchTV 1.4 and higher.

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