Sebastian Bassi <sbassi at cairp.org> writes:
> I want a recommendation for a program to do nucleotide or amino acid
> sequence alignment. I want this for taking the output to PHYLIP
> package for making a tree.
> The main characteristics I'd like to see on the program are:
>> -for PC (DOS/WIN).
> -Shareware or freeware.
> -complete documentation.
>> Here are the programs mentioned on PHYLIP documentation for making
> sequence alignment:
>> VOSTORG, TreeAlign, ClustalW and MALIGN.
>> Witch one do you recommend me?
Definitely clustalW.
* you can use the same program on different platforms (Unix, PC, Mac ...)
* its relatively fast
* there are plenty of tutorials available on the net
* you can run it on the web to http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/clustalw/
-thomas
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