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Protein WISDOM: A Workbench for In silico De novo Design of BioMolecules
Published on: July 25, 2013
ProtTest: selection of best-fit models of protein evolution
Federico Abascal1, Rafael Zardoya, David Posada
1Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, Universidad de Vigo, Spain. fabascal@uvigo.es
Summary:
Using an appropriate model of amino acid replacement is very important for the study of protein evolution and phylogenetic inference. We have built a tool for the selection of the best-fit model of evolution, among a set of candidate models, for a given protein sequence alignment.
Availability:
ProtTest is available under the GNU license from http://darwin.uvigo.es
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