T-Coffee: a web server for the multiple sequence alignment of protein and RNA sequences using structural information and homology extension

P Di Tommaso, S Moretti, I Xenarios… - Nucleic acids …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
P Di Tommaso, S Moretti, I Xenarios, M Orobitg, A Montanyola, JM Chang, JF Taly
Nucleic acids research, 2011academic.oup.com
This article introduces a new interface for T-Coffee, a consistency-based multiple sequence
alignment program. This interface provides an easy and intuitive access to the most popular
functionality of the package. These include the default T-Coffee mode for protein and nucleic
acid sequences, the M-Coffee mode that allows combining the output of any other aligners,
and template-based modes of T-Coffee that deliver high accuracy alignments while using
structural or homology derived templates. These three available template modes are …
Abstract
This article introduces a new interface for T-Coffee, a consistency-based multiple sequence alignment program. This interface provides an easy and intuitive access to the most popular functionality of the package. These include the default T-Coffee mode for protein and nucleic acid sequences, the M-Coffee mode that allows combining the output of any other aligners, and template-based modes of T-Coffee that deliver high accuracy alignments while using structural or homology derived templates. These three available template modes are Expresso for the alignment of protein with a known 3D-Structure, R-Coffee to align RNA sequences with conserved secondary structures and PSI-Coffee to accurately align distantly related sequences using homology extension. The new server benefits from recent improvements of the T-Coffee algorithm and can align up to 150 sequences as long as 10 000 residues and is available from both http://www.tcoffee.org and its main mirror http://tcoffee.crg.cat .
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