2 <head><title>ClustalW Alignment</title></head>
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4 <p><strong>ClustalW Alignments</strong></p>
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5 <p>ClustalW is a program for multiple sequence alignment. It works
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6 with both DNA and protein sequences, and can also perform profile
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7 profile alignments to align two or more multiple sequence
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10 Thompson, J.D., Higgins, D.G. and Gibson, T.J. (1994) <br>
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11 CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple
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12 sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position specific gap
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13 penalties and weight matrix choice.<br>
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14 <em>Nucleic Acids Research</em> <strong>22</strong> 4673-4680
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16 <p>There are two versions of this alignment function, which will operate
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17 on the selected region, if any, or the whole sequence set:</p>
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19 <li><strong>Calculations→Web Service→Clustal
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20 Alignment..</strong><br>
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21 Aligns using the clustalW program, ignoring any gaps in the submitted
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24 <li><strong>Calculations→Web Service→Clustal
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25 Realign..</strong><br>
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26 Submits the sequences with existing gaps to clustalW, which will
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27 preserve existing gaps and re-align those regions which are not optimal.
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