amino acid alignments

[Geoff Barton]

krasel at wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de (Cornelius Krasel) wrote:
>ae at dna.bio.warwick.ac.uk wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a program that can identify amino acids with similar 
>> properties (e.g. charge, hydrophobicity) in a multiple sequence alignment and 
>> then highlight these residues for presentation in a table?
>
>I have found the most versatile program for colouring multiple sequence
>alignments to be ALSCRIPT. The author is Geoff Barton, and he reads
>this group :-) (No, I don't know the ftp site off-hand.)
>
>--Cornelius.
>
Thanks for the recommendation.  Check out the README file on our ftp server.
You might also like to try the AMAS server.
Geoff.
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