Abstract
Marked-up sequence alignments typically provide the central figure in articles describing proteins, whether in the fields of biochemistry, bioinformatics or structural biology. The generation of these figures is often unwieldy: interactive programs are often aesthetically limited and the use of batch programs requires the repetitive iterative editing of scripts. ALINE is a portable interactive graphical sequence-alignment editor implemented in Perl/Tk which produces publication-quality sequence-alignment figures where "what you see is what you get". ALINE is freely available for download from http://crystal.bcs.uwa.edu.au/px/charlie/software/aline/.
Keywords
PerlScripting languageComputer scienceSequence (biology)Computer graphics (images)SoftwareInformation retrievalWorld Wide WebProgramming languageBiologyGenetics
MeSH Terms
Amino Acid SequenceComputer GraphicsProtein StructureSecondaryProteinsPublishingSequence AlignmentSoftwareUser-Computer Interface
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- 2009
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- 65
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 510-512
- Citations
- 408
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Charles S. Bond,
Alexander W. Schüttelkopf
(2009).
<i>ALINE</i>: a WYSIWYG protein-sequence alignment editor for publication-quality alignments.
Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography
, 65
(5)
, 510-512.
https://doi.org/10.1107/s0907444909007835
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- DOI
- 10.1107/s0907444909007835
- PMID
- 19390156