Multiple Alignment Workshop (MAW)  Calculate & compare a multiple sequence alignment
using one or more selected algorithms
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Input Sequences DNA or Protein sequences in Fasta, GenBank, EMBL, Swiss-Prot, or Clustalw format.

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clustal Options

Pairwise Alignment
Slow Accurate
Gap opening penalty [0-100]: -pwgapopen
Gap Extension Penalty [0-100]: -pwgapext
DNA weight matrix: -pwdnamatrix
Protein comparison matrix: -pwmatrix
(-quicktree) Fast Approximate
Gap Penalty [0-500]: -pairgap
Number of top diagonals (1 to 4000): -topdiags
Window size (1 to 50): -window
K-tuple: -ktuple
Multiple Alignment
Gap opening penalty [0-100]: -gapopen
Delay divergent sequences: -maxdiv %
DNA weight matrix: -dnamatrix
Protein comparison matrix: -matrix
Gap Extension Penalty [0-100]: -gapext
Negative matrix: -negative   off
Transition weight (DNA)(0-1): -transweight
 
Protein Gap
Residue-specific penalties: -nogap   on
Hydrophilic residues: -hgapresidues
Gap separation distance[0-100]: -gapdist
Hydrophilic penalties: -nohgap   on
 
End gap separation penalty: -endgaps   off

dialign Options

Diagonal threshhold: -thr
Iterative scoring: -it   off
Overlap weights: -ow (always)    (#seq<35)   -iw (never)
Clustering method: -max_link   -min_link   UPGMA
Asterisk mask: -mask   off
Maximum fragment length: -lmax
Minimum similarity value: -smin

msa Options

Terminal gap charge: -g (same as internal gaps)   no charge
Alignment cost: -b (unweighted sum)   weights by rationale-2
Maximal score: -d

muscle Options

Maximum iteration: -maxiters
Diagonal optimization: -diags   off

poa Options

Aggressive fusion: -fuseall   off  
Heavy bundling: -hb   off    -hbmin %
Alignment: -do_global   off    -do_progressive   off

probcons Options

Consistency: -c [0-5]
Iterative refinement: -ir   off
Pre-training: -pre   off
Viterbi coding: -viterbi   off

tcoffee Options

Gap penalties: -gapopen  -gapext  -cosmetic_penalty 
Terminal gaps: -tgmode   
Dynamic programming: -dp_mode   
Normalize scoring: -do_normalise  -ndiag  -diag_mode 

Output Formats  (shading details)

Output shading: Consensus shaded by identity   by similarity   show conserved   reverse
  Protein colored  
Output order: as input    as aligned  


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