MAFFT

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MAFFT is a multiple sequence alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences.

MAFFT is freely available for academic use, without any warranty.

[edit] See also

• Sequence alignment software
• Clustal

[edit] References

• Katoh K, Kuma K, Toh H, Miyata T (2005). MAFFT version 5: improvement in accuracy of multiple sequence alignment. Nucleic Acids Res, 33:511-518. (note: describes [ancestral versions of] the G-INS-i, L-INS-i and E-INS-i strategies.)
• Katoh K, Misawa K, Kuma K, Miyata T (2002). MAFFT: a novel method for rapid multiple sequence alignment based on fast Fourier transform. Nucleic Acids Res, 30:3059-3066. (note: describes the FFT-NS-1, FFT-NS-2 and FFT-NS-i strategies.)

[edit] External links

• Official website
• MAFFT Online Server
• ClustalW / MAFFT / PRRN at GenomeNet
• ClustalW / TCoffee / MAFFT in MyHits, SIB

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