CLUSTAL: a package for performing multiple sequence alignment on a microcomputer - PubMed (original) (raw)

Comparative Study

. 1988 Dec 15;73(1):237-44.

doi: 10.1016/0378-1119(88)90330-7.

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Comparative Study

CLUSTAL: a package for performing multiple sequence alignment on a microcomputer

D G Higgins et al. Gene. 1988.

Abstract

An approach for performing multiple alignments of large numbers of amino acid or nucleotide sequences is described. The method is based on first deriving a phylogenetic tree from a matrix of all pairwise sequence similarity scores, obtained using a fast pairwise alignment algorithm. Then the multiple alignment is achieved from a series of pairwise alignments of clusters of sequences, following the order of branching in the tree. The method is sufficiently fast and economical with memory to be easily implemented on a microcomputer, and yet the results obtained are comparable to those from packages requiring mainframe computer facilities.

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