PairWise Alignment

Local tools

  • EMBOSS programs - available on dapsas/inn or from the WEB
    needle - global alignment
    water - local alignment
  • 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


Multiple Alignment

Local tools

  • 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