Cheers for the help Joe..... Haven't been in contact as I've been on vacation for the last 3 weeks. I have inherited the code and have to optimise it by teaking the source and various parameters. Do you know of any good books too? Pete --- Joe Landman <landman@scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > Hi Peter: > > Michael Metcalf's (formerly of CERN) tutorials at > http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asdoc/f90.html might be a > good place. Others are > http://www.scd.ucar.edu/tcg/consweb/Fortran90/F90Tutorial/tutorial.html > http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs201/NOTES/fortran.html > and > http://www.obliquity.com/computer/fortran/ > > Just be careful if you inherit someone else's > code. They can be > difficult to comprehend even with comments. If you > are starting a new > project, carefully review whether fortran is the > most appropriate > language. Not trying to start a language war here, > just save some > headache. > > I found that the combination of Perl on the front > end (option/file > parsing), and fortran on the backend works quite > well. Sometimes you > dont have that option, but it is nice if it is > available. > > Joe ===== <P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Peter Oledzki</FONT></P> <P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Bioinformatics Research Student</FONT></P> <P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology</FONT></P> <P><FONT face="Times New Roman">University of Leeds,UK</FONT></P> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com