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Oxford University Press, Nucleic Acids Research, suppl_2(38), p. W14-W18, 2010

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq321

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ALTER: program-oriented conversion of DNA and protein alignments

Journal article published in 2010 by Daniel Glez-Peña, Daniel Gomez-Blanco, Miguel Reboiro-Jato ORCID, Florentino Fdez-Riverola, David Posada
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

ALTER is an open web-based tool to transform between different multiple sequence alignment formats. The originality of ALTER lies in the fact that it focuses on the specifications of mainstream alignment and analysis programs rather than on the conversion among more or less specific formats. In addition, ALTER is capable of identify and remove identical sequences during the transformation process. Besides its user-friendly environment, ALTER allows access to its functionalities in a programmatic way through a Representational State Transfer web service. ALTER’s front-end and its API are freely available at http://sing.ei.uvigo.es/ALTER/ and http://sing.ei.uvigo.es/ALTER/api/, respectively.