Phylo

Phylo is a web-based tool to optimize multiple sequence alignment (MSA) of DNA using humans' ability to recognize patterns. Phylo represents a multiple sequence alignment as a puzzle, a game where users manipulate colored shapes. The approach does not require extensive prior knowledge of biology.

Topic

Sequence analysis;Nucleic acids

Detail

  • Operation: Multiple sequence alignment;Sequence alignment;Multiple sequence alignment

  • Software interface: Web user interface;mobile app

  • Language: -

  • License: -

  • Cost: Free

  • Version name: -

  • Credit: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada;McGill University;Nokia.

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  • Contact: blanchem@mcb.mcgill.ca | jeromew@cs.mcgill.ca

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: Stable

Publications

  • Open-Phylo: a customizable crowd-computing platform for multiple sequence alignment.
  • Kwak D, et al. Open-Phylo: a customizable crowd-computing platform for multiple sequence alignment. Open-Phylo: a customizable crowd-computing platform for multiple sequence alignment. 2013; 14:R116. doi: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-10-r116
  • https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2013-14-10-r116
  • PMID: 24148814
  • PMC: PMC4014878
  • Phylo: a citizen science approach for improving multiple sequence alignment.
  • Kawrykow A, et al. Phylo: a citizen science approach for improving multiple sequence alignment. Phylo: a citizen science approach for improving multiple sequence alignment. 2012; 7:e31362. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031362
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031362
  • PMID: 22412834
  • PMC: PMC3296692

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