Clustal Omega

2015-01-13

azim58 - Clustal Omega
clustalo

Clustal Omega is a sequence alignment program

(very good alignment software; can't automatically figure out whether a sequence should be forward or reverse though)

found here
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/clustalo/

Clustal Omega can be used to investigate a contig assembly as long as all of the sequences are listed in the correct orientation (5'->3')


Comparison of Sequencher and Clustal Omega


Clustal Omega Command Line Program 


Examples of use from command line





clustalo -i fasta_input.fa --outfmt=clustal -o clustalo_output.txt


clustalo -i fasta_input.fa --outfmt=vienna -o clustalo_output.txt


Clustal Omega can be installed on Ubuntu simply by typing "sudo apt-get install clustalo"


Question about clustal omega and orientation