On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:43:37PM -0600, Borries Demeler wrote: > Sorry for this slightly off-topic question: > > I need to support a bioinformatics core facility where a lot of genomics > is done under Unix. To help with alignment display and editing, I am > looking for a graphical multiple sequence alignment editor for Unix/X > capable of the following features: > > * needs to be able to display hundreds of sequences > * shade by the degree of conservation > * shade by residue property (hydrophobic, acidic, etc...) > * various import formats desirable > * manually edit and save changes capabilities > > What is everyone using for these purposes, recommendations? Jalview (http://circinus.ebi.ac.uk:6543/jalview/) is a Java application that does these things, but I've not really used it in anger, so you'll have to try it and see. > Thanks a lot, -Borries > --- > Borries Demeler, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio > Dept. of Biochemistry, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900 > Voice: 210-567-6592, Fax: 210-567-4575, Email: demeler@biochem.uthscsa.edu -- Jon