a multiple sequence alignment editor written in Java. It is used widely in a variety of web pages (e.g. the EBI Clustalw server and the Pfam protein domain database) but is available as a general purpose alignment editor.
$
sbgrid-list jalview
To use Jalview on OS X, you will need to install Java:
$
sbgrid-cli install jalview
Available operating systems: Linux 64, OS X INTEL
A. M. Waterhouse, J. B. Procter, D. M. A. Martin, M. Clamp, and G. J. Barton. 2009. Jalview Version 2 - a multiple sequence alignment editor and analysis workbench. Bioinformatics. 25(9): 1189-1191.
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In 1987, when Geoff Barton was a graduate student learning computational structural biology at the University of London, just 6000 protein sequences were known, but their numbers were rising exponentially, and it was becoming clear that they had commonalities. Sequences that yield valuable functions have staying power, so they are conserved throughout evolution. Finding these recurring patterns, however, required painstaking pencil and paper comparisons.
Topic: Creating and analyzing multiple sequence alignments with the Jalview Desktop Application
Presenter: Jim Procter, Ph.D., Jalview Coordinator, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee Scotland, UK
Host: Jason Key
Recorded on July 11, 2013
Linux 64: 2.11.3.0 (773.4 MB)
OS X INTEL: 2.11.3.0 (594.4 MB)
Geoff Barton, Jim Procter