Sequence editor that can delete columns?

[Brian Foley]

Robert J. Forster wrote:
> 
> I have quite a few alignments of 16S rRNA sequences from 
> which I would like to delete a highly variable region 
> before analysis.  

	I do this with MASE by writing the conserved 
regions to files, and then putting those files together.


MASE:
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MASE (Multiple Alignment Sequence Editor,
D.Faulkner and J.Jurka, TIBS 13,321-322 (1988))

    MASE (Multiple Alignment Sequence Editor):  
    to get a copy, contact through
    e-mail mbcrr.harvard.EDU; if that fails, 
    send a note to klose at darwin.bu.EDU.
    Professor Temple Smith, one of the authors 
    of the program, can be reached at
    Boston Univ./Bio-molecular Engineering 
    Resource Center/36 Cummington St.,
    3rd Floor/Boston, MA 02215; 
    tel. 617-353-7123; fax 617-353-7020.  
    MBCRR
    (Molecular Biology Computer Resource) 
    seems to be a facility shared by
    Boston Univ. and Harvard.

    Mase is maintained, at least in part, 
    by Jerzy Jurka, c/o Jim Mullins/
    Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology/Stanford 
    School of Medicine/Stanford,
    CA  94305; e-mail jurek at jmullins.Stanford.EDU.

	In PHYLO_WIN, one can select any region or 
regions of an alignment (including automatically 
selecting just first, second and/or third positions 
of each codon) for analysis.  PHYLO_WIN includes
neighbor-joining, maximum likelihood, etc. methods
of analysis.

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PHYLO_WIN is a graphic tool for molecular phylogenetic inferences.
Present version is phylo_win 1.2. 

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 - VMS : distributed by David Mathog at 
   http://seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu:8000/pub/SOFTWARE/phylo_win.zip

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