WAViS

WAViS visualizes and analyzes multiple sequence alignments of nucleotide and amino acid sequences, highlighting conserved regions and gaps to support comparative genomics, phylogenetics, and molecular-evolution studies.

Key Features:

• Multiple sequence alignment visualization: Visualizes nucleotide and amino acid multiple sequence alignments to display residue-level variation.
• Conserved region and gap detection: Identifies and highlights conserved regions and gaps within alignments to aid interpretation of evolutionary relationships, functional domains, and structural motifs.
• Publication-quality figures: Generates publication-quality color figures of alignments for inclusion in scientific publications.

Scientific Applications:

• Comparative genomics: Enables comparison of sequences across species or gene families by visualizing conservation and variation.
• Phylogenetics: Supports interpretation of evolutionary relationships through visualization of conserved and variable sites in alignments.
• Molecular evolution: Facilitates analysis of conserved regions and gap patterns relevant to molecular-evolution studies.
• Functional and structural annotation: Assists identification of functional domains and structural motifs via conserved-region visualization.

Methodology:

Visualizes and analyzes nucleotide and amino acid multiple sequence alignments, identifies conserved regions and gaps, and generates publication-quality color figures.