We assume that you are familiar with basic Unix commands for manipulating files and directories. EMBOSS contains many more applications than we can describe in the time available. We will introduce some of these and also show you how to find out about the others. There are many exercises for you to try, and we'll present the results you will see so that you know all is going well. Please feel free to experiment with the programs! That is definitely the best way to learn what they can do.
Much of the text in this document is what you will see on your screen;
the Unix prompt is represented as unix % - don't type this in! The
commands you need to type are printed in bold. If no input is
specified, just press return. Pressing return will also
dismiss graphics windows. The symbol 
means we have
truncated the program output to save space.