Multiple sequence alignment with the Clustal series of programs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 3497-3500

  Chenna, Ramu ^e   Sugawara, Hideaki ^a   Koike, Tadashi ^a   Lopez, Rodrigo ^b   Gibson, Toby J ^e   Higgins, Desmond G ^c   Thompson, Julie D ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^e EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC ALGORITHM; INTERNET; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

NUCLEIC ACID;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; INTERNET; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0042121237     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg500     Document Type: Article

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