PairWise Alignment
Local tools
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EMBOSS programs - available on dapsas/inn or from the WEB
needle - global alignment
water - local alignment
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FASTA programs - available on sura
align - global alignment
lalign - local alignment -
Command line programs
dialign - aligns 2 or more sequences, based on segment-to-segment comparison
Web tools
- open in new windowSIM - Finds a user-defined number of best non-intersecting alignments between two protein sequences, at Expasy server
- BL2seq at NCBI
- LALIGN- Local alignment of 2 sequences (Pearson) at Viriginia university or at EMBNET, CH
- Dialign2 or at Bielfeld
- Align - global alignment (using Lipman and Pearson algorithm)
- SSearch at PIR
Multiple Alignment
Local tools
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EMBOSS programs - available on dapsas/inn or from the
WEB
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
clustalW - multiple sequence alignment program
clustalX - X-windows interface for clustalW
muscle - Multiple Protein sequences comparison by log-expectatio
t_coffee - multiple sequence alignment
probcons - Probabilistic Consistency-based Multiple Alignment of Amino Acid Sequences
dialign2 - aligns 2 or more sequences, based on segment-to-segment comparison
seaview - X-windows multiple sequence alignment editor
Web tools
- Clustal Omega at EBI - Alignment program that uses seeded guide trees and HMM profile-profile techniques to generate alignments
- BLOCKS Maker - WWW server for multiple alignments
- Kalign Very fast MSA tool that concentrates on local regions. Suitable for large alignments
- MAFFT Multiple Alignment using Fast Fourier Transform
- UCSC HMM Application
- SAM Sequence Alignment and Modeling System
- the MEME suite multiple EM for motif elicitation
- WebLogo creating Sequences logo at Berkeley
- DIALIGN - finding local similarities among distantly related sequences
- T_COFFE suite A collection of tools for Computing, Evaluating and Manipulating Multiple Alignments of DNA, RNA, Protein Sequences and Structures
- MUSCLE - Multiple PROTEIN sequences comparison by log-expectation at EBI
- ProbCons - Probabilistic Consistency-based Multiple Alignment of Amino Acid Sequences
- UCSC HMM Application
- MEME suite - multiple EM for motif elicitation
- WebLogo - sequence logo generation
- MatchBox - suitable for finding and aligning conserved structural motives, in particular in protein core.
- LAMA Block vs Block Searcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- MAFFT - Multiple Sequence Alignment based on fast Fourier transform at EBI
- RevTrans takes a set of DNA sequences, virtually translates them, and aligns the peptide sequences