AQUA: automated quality improvement for multiple sequence alignments

Jean Muller; Christopher J. Creevey; Julie D. Thompson; Detlev Arendt; Peer Bork

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp651

AQUA: automated quality improvement for multiple sequence alignments

Jean Muller, Christopher J. Creevey, Julie D. Thompson, Detlev Arendt, Peer Bork

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Abstract

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a central tool in most modern biology studies. However, despite generations of valuable tools, human experts are still able to improve automatically generated MSAs. In an effort to automatically identify the most reliable MSA for a given protein family, we propose a very simple protocol, named AQUA for 'Automated quality improvement for multiple sequence alignments'. Our current implementation relies on two alignment programs (MUSCLE and MAFFT), one refinement program (RASCAL) and one assessment program (NORMD), but other programs could be incorporated at any of the three steps. Availability: AQUA is implemented in Tcl/Tk and runs in command line on all platforms. The source code is available under the GNU GPL license. Source code, README and Supplementary data are available at http://www.bork.embl.de/Docu/AQUA.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	263-265
Number of pages	3
Journal	Bioinformatics
Volume	26
Issue number	2
Early online date	19 Nov 2009
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp651
Publication status	Published - 2010

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