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OPAL

OPAL

A tool for multiple sequence alignment (MSA) using "form-and-polish strategy." The Authors claim OPAL to be more accurate than Muscle and similar to Muscle on protein sequence alignment and have similar accuracy as MAFFT and Muscle on DNA sequence alignments.

Topic

Sequence analysis

Details

  • Operation: Multiple sequence alignment
  • Input: FASTA
  • Output: FASTA
  • Software interface: Command-line user interface
  • Language: Java
  • Operating system: Linux; Mac OS X; Microsoft Windows
  • License: Other
  • Cost: Free for noncommercial use
  • Version name: 2.1.3
  • Maturity: Stable
  • Credit: the University of Arizona National Science Foundation IGERT Genomics Initiative Grant DGE-0114420; The US National Science Foundation through Grant DBI-0317498.
  • Contact: Travis Wheeler opal _at_ cs.arizona.edu
  • Collection: -

Publications

Wheeler TJ, Kececioglu JD "Multiple alignment by aligning alignments." Bioinformatics. 2007 Jul 1;23(13):i559-68. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btm226
PMID: 17646343


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