FASconCAT-G: Extensive functions for multiple sequence alignment preparations concerning phylogenetic studies

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kück, Patrick ^a   Longo, Gary C ^b  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus sequence; File format conversion; Multiple sequence alignment; Phylogenetic reconstruction; Sequence concatenation; Sequence processing; Sequence translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988527766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12983-014-0081-x     Document Type: Article

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