Opal: multiple sequence alignment software

Opal is software for aligning multiple biological sequences.

In benchmark tests, Opal aligns sequences with accuracy similar to that of MAFTT and Probcons. Details of the software are available in this paper (from the Proceedings of ISMB 2007).

URL of this page http://opal.cs.arizona.edu

OPAL Software Terms of Use Please read the terms and accept them before downloading the distribution.

Distribution Opal.jar (you may need to right-click, then choose "save link as")

Citation Travis Wheeler and John Kececioglu,
"Multiple alignment by aligning alignments,"
Proceedings of the 15th ISCB Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics 23, i559-i568, 2007.
(PDF)

Funding TW is supported by a PhD Fellowship from the University of Arizona National Science Foundation IGERT Genomics Initiative Grant DGE-0114420. JK is supported by the US National Science Foundation through Grant DBI-0317498, "Robust Tools for Biological Sequence Alignment."

Contact opal _ at _ cs.arizona.edu

Authors Travis Wheeler and John Kececioglu

URL of this page		`http://opal.cs.arizona.edu`
`OPAL` Software Terms of Use		Please read the terms and accept them before downloading the distribution.
Distribution		`Opal.jar` (you may need to right-click, then choose "save link as")
Citation		Travis Wheeler and John Kececioglu, "Multiple alignment by aligning alignments," Proceedings of the 15th ISCB Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics 23, i559-i568, 2007. (PDF)
Funding		TW is supported by a PhD Fellowship from the University of Arizona National Science Foundation IGERT Genomics Initiative Grant DGE-0114420. JK is supported by the US National Science Foundation through Grant DBI-0317498, "Robust Tools for Biological Sequence Alignment."
Contact		opal _ at _ cs.arizona.edu
Authors		Travis Wheeler and John Kececioglu