Note on the quality of the alignments
The alignment of the major families (Dengue, West Nile, Yellow Fever, Japanese Encephalitis) is generally
good, although the 3' NCR has some problems. Alignment of the polyprotein regions of more remotely
related viruses is reliable for most viruses, but care should be taken with the Tamana bat virus and the other outliers.
The alignment of the 3' and (to a slightly lesser extent) 5' NCRs is not trustworthy, and should probably
not be used for analysis.
Finally, the alignment of HCV-H with all others is very sketchy indeed; only occasional amino acid motifs
show convincing similarity to the rest of the alignment. Please be sure to examine the alignment before
using it in any regions you need. Work on this alignment is ongoing, and significant improvements will be announced in the News section of the website.
To reformat the sequences, go to our Seq-Convert page.
Download nucleotide alignment as fasta. This is a codon-alignment, meaning all the gaps are edited to maintain the correct reading frame, so the alignment can be directly translated to amino acids.
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