AlignStat

AlignStat is a web-based software tool and R package to statisticallly compare and assess the similarity of alternative multiple sequence alignments. AlignStat can identofy most informative consensus sequences and highlight systematic differences in alignments. The AlignStat algorithm categorizes the differences into merges, splits and shifts.

Topic

Statistics and probability;Sequence analysis

Detail

  • Operation: Sequence comparison

  • Software interface: Command-line user interface;Web user interface

  • Language: R;C++

  • License: Other

  • Cost: Free

  • Version name: 1.3.1

  • Credit: Australian Research Council, the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, Melbourne, Monash and La Trobe Universities and an initiative of the Victorian Government, Australia.

  • Input: -

  • Output: -

  • Contact: Thomas Shafee T.Shafee@LaTrobe.edu.au

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: Emerging

Publications

  • AlignStat: a web-tool and R package for statistical comparison of alternative multiple sequence alignments.
  • Shafee T, Cooke I. AlignStat: a web-tool and R package for statistical comparison of alternative multiple sequence alignments. BMC Bioinformatics. 2016 Oct 26;17(1):434. doi: 10.1186/s12859-016-1300-6. PMID: 27784265; PMCID: PMC5081975.
  • https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-016-1300-6
  • PMID: 27784265
  • PMC: PMC5081975

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