In article <2q5v56$7g3 at csi0.csi.uottawa.ca>, misrael at grdb.csi.uottawa.ca
(Mark Israel) wrote:
>> In article <2q5psr$5f2 at netnews.upenn.edu>, Sean David Moore <smoore at mail.sas.upenn.edu> writes:
>> > I am looking for the name and/or location of the best sequence alignment
> > program. [...]
> >
> > Is there even such a thing.?
> >
> > No responses as of the fifth post of this message were received except to
> > ask for the response.
>> Well, the following were described as "optimal"; so maybe they're
> the best. Just a wild guess.
>> "The only genuine optimal alignment
> program for multiple sequences that I am aware of is "msa" (Lipman,
> Altschul, and Kececioglu, (1989) PNAS 86:4412-4415) which is available
> from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
>> Bill Pearson"
Also try MACAW, also from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. It's got several versions,
one of which may be compatible with your hardware (I know their Mac-version
works fine.)
--Erich Schwarz
