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. 2003 Jul 1;31(13):3497-500.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkg500.

Multiple sequence alignment with the Clustal series of programs

Ramu Chenna  1 , Hideaki Sugawara, Tadashi Koike, Rodrigo Lopez, Toby J Gibson, Desmond G Higgins, Julie D Thompson
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Multiple sequence alignment with the Clustal series of programs

Ramu Chenna et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

The Clustal series of programs are widely used in molecular biology for the multiple alignment of both nucleic acid and protein sequences and for preparing phylogenetic trees. The popularity of the programs depends on a number of factors, including not only the accuracy of the results, but also the robustness, portability and user-friendliness of the programs. New features include NEXUS and FASTA format output, printing range numbers and faster tree calculation. Although, Clustal was originally developed to run on a local computer, numerous Web servers have been set up, notably at the EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute) (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/clustalw/).

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Figure 1
Figure 1
A multiple alignment of four oxidoreductase NAD binding domain protein sequences. Residues are coloured according to the following criteria: AVFPMILW are shown in red, DE are blue, RHK are magenta, STYHCNGQ are green and all other residues are grey. The residue range for each sequence is shown after the sequence name.
Figure 2
Figure 2
A tree calculated from an alignment of more than 1100 ring finger domains, using ClustalW 1.83. The full tree calculation, including the distance matrix calculation, took 22 s on a 1 GHz Pentium III. The output tree was displayed with Unrooted (18).
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