To use all functions of this page, please activate cookies in your browser.
my.bionity.com
With an accout for my.bionity.com you can always see everything at a glance – and you can configure your own website and individual newsletter.
- My watch list
- My saved searches
- My saved topics
- My newsletter
Clustal
Clustal is a widely used multiple sequence alignment computer program. The latest version is 1.83. There are two main variations:
This program is available from European Bioinformatics Institute ftp server. Choose unix for Unix/Linux, mac for Mac OS, or dos for Windows.
Additional recommended knowledge
Input/OutputThis program accepts a wide range on input format. Included NBRF/PIR, FASTA, EMBL/Swissprot, Clustal, GCC/MSF, GCG9 RSF and GDE. The output format can be one or many of the following: Clustal, NBRF/PIR, GCG/MSF, PHYLIP, GDE, NEXUS. Multiple sequence alignmentThere are three main steps:
These are done automatically when you select "Do Complete Alignment". Other options are "Do Alignment from guide tree" and "Produce guide tree only". Profile alignmentsPairwise alignments are computed for all against all sequences, and similarities are stored in a matrix. This is then converted into a distance matrix, where the distance measures reflect the evolutionary distance between each pair of sequences. From this distance matrix, a guide tree, or phylogenetic tree, for the order in which pairs of sequences are to be aligned and combined with previous alignments is constructed using a neighbour-joining clustering algorithm. Sequences are progressively aligned at each branch point, starting from the least distant pair of sequences. SettingUsers can align the sequences using the default setting, but occasionally it may be useful to customize one's own parameters. The main parameters are the gap opening penalty, and the gap extension penalty. Accelerated versionA FPGA based version of the ClustalW algorithm offered by Progeniq show up to 20 fold speedup versus software implementation on the same processor. References
See also
Categories: Bioinformatics | Bioinformatics software | Computational phylogenetics |
|||||||||||||||
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Clustal". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia. |