> We are trying to become less dependent on the GCG package,
> especially since many PC- and Web-based programs provide parts of its
> functionality and the fees/costs of maintaining GCG have not declined in
> a noticable way. Our only "missing link" in making graphically enhanced
> sequence alignments in the function of PRETTY - identification of similar
> amino acids, as defined by a similarity matrix such as PAM250, and
> labeling of the identified ones with uppercase.
Pretty per se doesn't do any alignments; nor do the related programs
PrettyBox and PrettyPlot. The PileUp program does the actual
alignments.
There are a couple of multiple sequence alignment programs out there.
Clustal is probably the oldest publically available program.
To replace PrettyBox itself I suggest looking at the BoxShade program by
Kay Hoffmann. I'm not sure if there is a PC-based replacement for
PrettyPlot although I suspect there should be.
-- Rick
Rick Westerman System Manager of the Ag Campus Lab. for
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