AMAP
| Developer(s) | Ariel Schwartz (UC Berkeley), Lior Pachter (UC Berkeley) |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.0 |
| Operating system | UNIX, Linux, Mac |
| Type | Bioinformatics tool |
| Licence | Open source |
| Website | AMAP download |
AMAP is a multiple sequence alignment program based on a new approach to multiple alignment called sequence annealing. This approach consists of building up the multiple alignment one match at a time, thereby circumventing many of the problems of progressive alignment. The AMAP parameters can be used to tune the sensivitiy-specificity tradeoff.
The program can be used through the AMAP web server or as a standalone program which can be installed with the source code.
Input/Output
This program accepts sequences in FASTA format.
The output format includes: FASTA format, Clustal.
References
A. Schwartz and L. Pachter, Multiple alignment by sequence annealing, Bioinformatics 23, e24-e29 (2006).