WebACT not returning result

Question

[samuelksm]

Hello,

I am trying to do an nucleotide alignment comparison on WebACT, the online tool but when I load in my raw fasta sequence and the actual sequence I am comparing to the feedback am getting is..

Java Web Start could not be detected. Please read about Web Start before launching ACT

and no result or some meaningless result. any body who has an idea what that means?

Thank you

samuelksm

[samuelksm]

I have installed the java logo and repeated the whole process but now it says my security setting have blocked blocked the application, I shut out the security setting but it still gives the same message. Is there any other way I could do the alignments?

By the way am a novice to bioinformatics and sequence analysis.

Answer 1

[Sukhi Singh]

Did you read this? It might be the problem.

If you are using a different browser (such as Opera) and see the 'Java Web Start could not be detected' warning, it may be that Web Start is installed, but we just can't detect it. Try starting ACT. If Web Start is installed, ACT will either start automatically or you will be offered the choice of opening or downloading a file named with a '.jnlp' suffix. Select 'open', and if Web Start is installed and correctly configured, ACT will start. If nothing happens, click the Java logo at the bottom of the page to install Web Start.