MAFFT
Encyclopedia
MAFFT is a multiple sequence alignment
program for amino acid
or nucleotide
sequences. MAFFT is freely available for academic use, without any warranty.
Multiple sequence alignment
A multiple sequence alignment is a sequence alignment of three or more biological sequences, generally protein, DNA, or RNA. In many cases, the input set of query sequences are assumed to have an evolutionary relationship by which they share a lineage and are descended from a common ancestor...
program for amino acid
Amino acid
Amino acids are molecules containing an amine group, a carboxylic acid group and a side-chain that varies between different amino acids. The key elements of an amino acid are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen...
or nucleotide
Nucleotide
Nucleotides are molecules that, when joined together, make up the structural units of RNA and DNA. In addition, nucleotides participate in cellular signaling , and are incorporated into important cofactors of enzymatic reactions...
sequences. MAFFT is freely available for academic use, without any warranty.
External links
- Official website
- MAFFT Online Server
- MAFFT server at EBI
- ClustalW / MAFFT / PRRN at GenomeNet
- ClustalW / TCoffee / MAFFT in MyHits, SIB