In article <47l8ns$441 at lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, Jeremy Packer
<jclp100 at mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> I often encounter the situation where I want to use only part of a
> sequence alignment as a phylip infile. (for example to exclude all
> postions where there is a gap in any of the sequences or where the
> alignment appears uncertain).
...
>We are mainly using Macs, but also have access to PCs
> and UNIX( via telnet).
<ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/sci/molbio/iubiomolbio/readseq/mac-bin/readseq.hqx.gz>
(160 KB) will do the trick. Otherwise Alpha will, if you hold the option
key when you select columns in your text. Finally, SeqApp seems to do what
you want.