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Look-Align: an interactive web-based multiple sequence alignment viewer with polymorphism analysis support
Payan Canaran1, Lincoln Stein, Doreen Ware
1Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
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We have developed Look-Align, an interactive web-based viewer to display pre-computed multiple sequence alignments. Although initially developed to support the visualization needs of the maize diversity website Panzea (http://www.panzea.org), the viewer is a generic stand-alone tool that can be easily integrated into other websites.
Availability:
Look-Align is written in Perl using open-source components and is available under an open-source license. Live installation and download information can be found at the Panzea website (http://www.panzea.org/software/alignment_viewer.html).
Contact:
ware@cshl.edu
Supplementary Information:
The Supplementary information includes sample lists of multiple sequence alignment software and sample screenshots of the viewer.
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