muscle - Multiple Protein Sequence Alignment
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Copyright
Copyright © 2003, 2004 Steffen Moeller (manpage)
Copyright © 2007, 2008 Charles Plessy (manpage)
Muscle is in the public domain, and therefore not subjected to copyright.
This manual page was written by Steffen Moeller moeller@debian.org for the Debian(TM) system (but may be
used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document as if it were in
public domain.
muscle 3.7 02/06/2008 MUSCLE(1)
Description
This manual page documents briefly the muscle command.
muscle aligns protein sequences and is considered superior and faster than Clustal W.
Name
muscle - Multiple Protein Sequence Alignment
Options
-ininputfile
Path to FASTA formatted input file
-outoutputfile
Path to output file, FASTA formatted by default
-diags
Find diagonals (faster for similar sequences)
-maxitersn
Maximum number of iterations (integer, default 16)
-maxhoursn
Maximum time to iterate in hours (default no limit)
-maxmbm
Maximum memory to allocate in Mb (default 80% of RAM)
-html
Write output in HTML format (default FASTA)
-msf
Write output in MSF format (default FASTA)
-clw
Write output in Clustal W format (default FASTA)
-clwstrict
As -clw, with ´CLUSTAL W (1.81)´ header
-log[a]logfile
Log to file (append if -loga, overwrite if -log)
-quiet
Do not write progress messages to stderr
-stable
Output sequences in input order (default is -group)
-group
Group sequences by similarity (this is the default)
-version
Display version information and exit
See Also
clustalw(1), seaview(1), t_coffee(1).
Synopsis
muscle-ininputfile(fasta) [-outoutputfile(defaultfasta)] [-diags] [-loglogfile] [-maxitersn]
[-maxhoursn] [-maxmbm] [-html] [-msf] [-clw] [-clwstrict] [-log[a]logfile] [-quiet] [-stable]
[-group] [-version]
