Thursday, July 11th at 11:00am EST, join us for a 30-minute webinar to hear Jim Procter, Jalview Coordinator at University of Dundee, discuss "Creating and analyzing multiple sequence alignments with the Jalview Desktop Application"

For more information on Jalview, read the publication or take a look at the Jalview website.


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Host: Piotr Sliz

Abstract: Jalview is a widely used open source tool for sequence alignment, editing, visualization and analysis. A web based version of Jalview is used on many websites, but the Desktop version, which will be explored in this webinar, provides full access to Jalview's data retrieval, alignment, analysis and figure generation capabilities.

The Jalview Desktop provides access to six different multiple alignment programs, including Clustal Omega, and eighteen different protein conservation measures. Protein secondary structure predictions can be made using JPred, and it also allows access to four methods for protein disorder prediction. Sequences, structures, alignments and annotation can also be retrieved from Distributed Annotation System (DAS) sources, or directly from Uniprot, ENA, Pfam, Rfam, and the PDBe. The alignment, conservation and disorder services available in the Jalview desktop are provided through the JABAWS system, which is also accessible from the command line, and can be installed on the users own desktop or compute cluster.

Jalview provides linked viewers for trees and principal components analysis plots, and integrates the VARNA RNA secondary structure viewer (varna.lri.fr) and Jmol (jmol.sourceforge.net) for 3D structure display. Together with JABAWS, Jalview provides a comprehensive environment for in-depth investigation of sequence-structure relationships.

Funding: Jalview and JABAWS have been developed with support from the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), with additional contributions from students supported by the Google Summer of Code.

Additional materials: Jalview is available under the GPLv3 at http://www.jalview.org JABAWS available under Apache license at http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jabaws