Jalview is an Open Source project funded by the BBSRC.

The source is made available under the GNU General Public License as a gzipped tar file, which expands to a directory named jalview.

To build the application you will need J2SDK 1.4+, all additional dependencies are provided in the archive.

Full instructions for building the source are given in jalview/doc/building.html. To summarise, there are two ways to build Jalview :

• Apache Ant
  For the impatient: ant with no arguments will build the application, ant with the "makeApplet" target will build the applet.
• Borland JBuilder
  Jalview version 2+ is developed using JBuilder. There are two project files in the root directory of the archive, one for the application and another for the applet.

Polite notice: If you want to change Jalview in a way that would benefit others in the community, please email us your code or suggestions and we will do our best to incorporate your ideas in future releases!