CINEMA-MX: a modular multiple alignment editor

Analyzing and visualizing multiple sequence alignments is a common task in many areas of molecular biology and bioinformatics. Many tools exist for this purpose, but are not easily customizable for specific in-house uses. Here we report the development of an editor, CINEMA-MX, that addresses these i...

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Published in:Bioinformatics 2002-10, Vol.18 (10), p.1402-1403
Main Authors: Lord, P.W., Selley, J.N., Attwood, T.K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bacterial diseases
Biological and medical sciences
Borrelia infections
Computer Graphics
Database Management Systems
Databases, Nucleic Acid
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
General aspects
Human bacterial diseases
Infectious diseases
Information Storage and Retrieval - methods
Mathematics in biology. Statistical analysis. Models. Metrology. Data processing in biology (general aspects)
Medical sciences
Protozoa
Sequence Alignment - methods
Software
Tropical bacterial diseases
User-Computer Interface
Vaccines, antisera, therapeutical immunoglobulins and monoclonal antibodies
Word Processing
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Summary:Analyzing and visualizing multiple sequence alignments is a common task in many areas of molecular biology and bioinformatics. Many tools exist for this purpose, but are not easily customizable for specific in-house uses. Here we report the development of an editor, CINEMA-MX, that addresses these issues. CINEMA-MX is highly modular and configurable, and we present examples to illustrate its extensibility. Availability: The program and full source code, which are available from http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/cinema-mx, are being released under a combination of the LGPL and GPL, for Unix or Windows platforms. Contact: p.lord@russet.org.uk * To whom correspondence should be addressed at Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
ISSN:1367-4803
1460-2059
1367-4811
DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/18.10.1402