AQUA
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DescriptionAutomated quality improvement for multiple sequence alignments
Homepagehttp://www.bork.embl.de/Docu/AQUA
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AQUA: automated quality improvement for multiple sequence alignments
Jean Muller; Christopher J. Creevey; Julie D. Thompson; Detlev Arendt; Peer Bork
Summary: 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.
Contact: muller@embl.de, bork@embl.de
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp651
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