Fergus Doherty wrote:
>> I know there is a UNIX vewer app for Clustal alignments (belvu), but is
> there one for the Mac? (that uses shading/boxes/colour to indicate
> similarity etc).
In addition to ClustalX, there is a Mac version of BoxShade, which takes
MSF files (easily output from clustalw). Unlike the mainframe version of
BoxShade, the Mac version (a) has a fully dialog/menu driven interface
(b) will display your alignment or save it as PICT or EPSF/PS (or RTF or
TEXT) (c) does handle ClustalW MSF files (at least the ones I tried).
It is available from ftp://ulrec3.unil.ch/pub/boxshade/MacBoxshade.
I am the author, so I am biased in thinking it is quite nice. All the
best.
Michael D. Baron
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Michael D. Baron Ph.D. (michael.baron at bbsrc.ac.uk)
Senior Research Scientist
Institute for Animal Health
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