PairWise Alignment

Local tools available on sura (our unix server)

  • EMBOSS programs:
    needle - global alignment
    water - local alignment
  • FASTA programs:
    align - global alignment
    lalign - local alignment
  • BLASTpackage program bl2seqs

Web tools


Multiple Alignment

Local tools

  • EMBOSS programs - available on sura (unix server) or on sura web
    edialign - Local multiple alignment
    emma - Multiple alignment program - interface to ClustalW program
    infoalign - Information on a multiple sequence alignment
    plotcon - Plots the quality of conservation of a sequence alignment
    prettyplot - Displays aligned sequences, with colouring and boxing
    showalign - Displays a multiple sequence alignment
    tranalign - Align nucleic coding regions given the aligned proteins
  • Command line programs on sura
    clustalW - multiple sequence alignment program
    dialign2 - aligns 2 or more sequences, based on segment-to-segment comparison
    t_coffee - a multiple sequence alignment package
    muscle - multiple alignment software

Web tools


Multiple Alignment Editors

Web tools