This simple tool is compose of 3 files graphmaker the perl script graphmaker.cnf the configuration file graphmaker.dat the data file 1) Check if you have PERL. You can find it at http://www.perl.com If think you need PERL 5.XXX 2) Control the path of your perl installation. The default in graphmaker is #!/usr/local/bin/perl 3) Check if you have GD.pm (A graphics library for fast GIF creation in perl). You can find it at http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/ftp/pub/software/WWW/GD.html Now you can use graphmaker. Change the configuration parameters in graphmaker.cnf (default) and write your data in graphmaker.dat (default)