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SeaView is a multiplatform, graphical user interface for multiple
sequence alignment and molecular phylogeny. Important features are:
-1) SeaView reads and writes various file formats (NEXUS, MSF,
- CLUSTAL, FASTA, PHYLIP, MASE, Newick) of DNA and protein sequences
- and of phylogenetic trees.
+1) SeaView reads and writes various file formats (NEXUS, MSF, CLUSTAL,
+ FASTA, PHYLIP, MASE, Newick) of DNA and protein sequences and of
+ phylogenetic trees.
-2) SeaView drives programs muscle or clustalw for multiple sequence
- alignment, and also allows to use any external alignment algorithm
- able to read and write FASTA-formatted files.
+2) SeaView drives programs muscle or Clustal Omega (clustalo) for
+ multiple sequence alignment, and also allows to use any external
+ alignment algorithm able to read and write FASTA-formatted files.
3) Seaview drives the Gblocks program to select blocks of
evolutionarily conserved sites.
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ sequence alignment and molecular phylogeny. Important features are:
evolutionary distances,
c) maximum likelihood, driving program PhyML 3.0.
-5) SeaView draws phylogenetic trees on screen, PDF or PostScript files
+5) SeaView prints and draws phylogenetic trees on screen, SVG, PDF or
+ PostScript files.
+
6) SeaView allows to download sequences from EMBL/GenBank/UniProt
using the Internet.