MAFFT parallel

A parallelized version of MAFFT multiple sequence alignment (MSA) tool. The parallelization is based on the POSIX Threads library with two approaches: best-first and simple hill-climbing in the alignment refinement stage.

Topic

Phylogeny;Sequence analysis;Nucleic acid sites, features and motifs;Nucleic acid structure analysis;Sequence sites, features and motifs

Detail

  • Operation: Multiple sequence alignment

  • Software interface: Command-line user interface

  • Language: C

  • License: FASTA

  • Cost: -

  • Version name: 7.428 / 7.427

  • Credit: KAKENHI for Young Scientists (B) 21700326 from Monbukagakusho, Japan (to K.K.).

  • Input: FASTA

  • Output: FASTA;Clustal

  • Contact: katoh@ifrec.osaka-u.ac.jp

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: Stable

Publications

  • Parallelization of the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program.
  • Katoh K and Toh H. Parallelization of the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program. Parallelization of the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program. 2010; 26:1899-900. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq224
  • https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq224
  • PMID: 20427515
  • PMC: -

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