MAFFT

MAFFT
Developer(s) Kazutaka Katoh
Stable release 6.935 / 21 August 2012 (2012-08-21)
Written in C
Operating system UNIX, Linux, Mac, MS-Windows
Type Bioinformatics tool
Licence Free for academic users
Website website

In bioinformatics, MAFFT is a multiple sequence alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences.[1][2] The software is named after the acronym Multiple Alignment using Fast Fourier Transform after the major computational technique used by the method. MAFFT is freely available for academic use, without any warranty.[3]

See also

References

  1. Katoh, Kazutaka; Misawa, Kazuharu; Kuma, Kei-ichi; Miyata, Takashi (2002). "MAFFT: a novel method for rapid multiple sequence alignment based on fast Fourier transform". Nucleic Acids Research 30 (14): 3059–66. doi:10.1093/nar/gkf436. PMC 135756. PMID 12136088.
  2. Katoh, Kazutaka; Kuma, Kei-ichi; Toh, Hiroyuki; Miyata, Takashi (2005). "MAFFT version 5: improvement in accuracy of multiple sequence alignment". Nucleic Acids Research 33 (2): 511–8. doi:10.1093/nar/gki198. PMC 548345. PMID 15661851.
  3. MAFFT license

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