Sequence utilities / Multiple sequence alignment
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Progressive alignment first builds a guide tree from k-mer distances, then aligns sequences and groups from the closest to the most distant along the tree; it suits up to a few dozen homologous sequences of up to a few thousand residues.
In the coloured view identical or similar residues share a colour, and the conservation bar below is taller for more uniform columns; scroll sideways to see the full length.
Conservation marks in the Clustal text: “*” all identical, “:” a strongly similar group of amino acids, “.” a weakly similar group, space not conserved or gapped.
Alignment quality depends on similarity: below about 25% identity, protein alignments become much less reliable. To build a tree, pass the FASTA result to the neighbour-joining tree tool.
Progressive alignment: Feng & Doolittle 1987 (J Mol Evol 25:351); k-mer distance: Edgar 2004 (Nucleic Acids Res 32:1792); conservation groups as in Clustal (Thompson et al. 1994, Nucleic Acids Res 22:4673).
Up to 50 sequences of up to 2,000 nt/aa each; for larger alignments please contact us for server-side analysis.
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