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Idiogram Album: Human copyright 1991 David Adler and Michael Willis
Idiogram Album: Mouse copyright 1992 David Adler

ABOUT IDIOGRAM ALBUMS
The Idiogram Album files are PostScript versions of standard idiograms.
These PostScript files were created to be compatible with graphics software
such as Adobe Illustrator, Aldus FreeHand, Corel Draw, Alysys Virtuoso. These
programs will allow band by band manipulation of the idiograms so that
abnormal (translocations, deletions, inversions, etc.) chromosome idiograms
can be constructed. The Human set is based on the ISCN 1985 High Resolution
Banding (ISCN 1985: An International System for Human Cytogenetic
Nomenclature, Harden, D.G. and Klinger, H.P., eds., published in collaboration
with Cytogenet. Cell Genet., Karger, Basel, 1985). Each human file contains
idiograms for three resolutions of banding (400, 550, 850 total bands).The
mouse set is adapted from Nesbitt and Francke (Chromosoma 41:145-158, 1973)
and Edward Evans' standard karyotype from Lyon & Searle "Genetic variants &
strains of the laboratory mouse" 2nd edition, OUP 1989.
The following people have contributed ideas, suggestions and banding opinions:
Christine Disteche and George Martin of the Department of Pathology,
University of Washington; Roland Hubner, University of Liege. 
Gif versions of the idiogram files can be found in the directory "gif".
Thanks to Rob Harper, Center for Scientific Computing, Espoo, Finland,
for converting the PostScript files to gif.

LICENSE AGREEMENT:  These files are provided for use by individuals
only. Use for or by "for profit" organizations is explicitly
prohibited. You may not distribute the "Albums". Idiogram Album:
Human and Idiogram Album: Mouse are copyrighted. You may copy the
files for personal use only. You may use the files for research publication
figures, meeting presentation slides.
Use of these files in any way for commercial purposes is explicitly prohibited.
Contact David Adler, see address below, for information about commercial licensing.

DISCLAIMER
The sole responsibility for the use of these files is yours.
No claim of accuracy is stated or implied.
You assume all responsibility for inspecting all figures,
slides, etc. that include these idiograms to insure standard
and accepted chromosome banding patterns.

*** Please do NOT distribute these files.

You may use and modify the files for the production of slides,
publication graphics, posters. I would appreciate acknowledgement
in publications using these files (see below).

Individual idiograms:  Individual PostScript files are in the
directories labeled "Human" and "Mouse".  These files have a ".ps"
extension which can be changed if necessary to be recognized by
your graphics software (such as ".ai" for Adobe Illustrator).

UNPACKING compressed sets (".sit.hqx" or ".tar.Z"):  The files are
compressed in various formats depending on the system you specified
in your request they all must be "unpacked" before use.  PC:
(retrieve the individual PostScript files) Mac:  1. Decode binhex
files (.hqx), the decoded files will now look like an application
(with app icon) which can be double clicked and will unstuff
themselves.  NeXT:  You have received these via NeXTMail, drag the
folder to desired location (ex: ~/Library) and double click.

After "unpacking" you should now have a collection of files with names
that should be self explanatory (human_01, Human_X, mouse1.ps).
Never work on the original files always make working copies. You
must have graphics software that can handle PostScript files. These
files can be viewed and manipulated with programs such as Adobe
Illustrator or Aldus Freehand, they can also be placed by Aldus
Pagemaker, etc. I suggest illustration software for maximum use of
the files (Illustrator, Freehand, Corel Draw, Altsys' Virtuoso, etc.).
The files can be copied and renamed with new extensions - characters
after "." can be changed as needed, " *.ai " - Adobe Illustrator,
" *.ps " - PostScript, etc. Some software and direct printing of files
may require the following line be added at the end of each PostScript
file, before the " %%Trailer " line:

showpage

(this can be done with any text
editor/word processor, be sure to save as ascii) 


PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Inc.
NeXT is a trademark of NeXT, Inc., Redwood City, CA
Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA.

Idiogram Album: Human copyright 1991 David Adler and Michael Willis
Idiogram Album: Mouse copyright 1992 David Adler.

Acknowledgement:  David Adler, Department of Pathology,
University of Washington, Seattle, for the use of Idiogram Albums.

Contact if things do not work as expected:
David Adler
Univ. of Washington
Pathology SM-30
Seattle, WA 98195 (206)543-0716
Email:     dadler@u.washington.edu
NeXTMail:  dadler@larry.pathology.washington.edu