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pal2nal

Description

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PAL2NAL is a program that converts a multiple sequence alignment of proteins and the corresponding DNA (or mRNA) sequences into a codon-based DNA alignment.

Environment Modules

Run module spider pal2nal to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

  • HPC_PAL2NAL_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_PAL2NAL_BIN - executable directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses PAl2NAL you have to cite it as follows:

Suyama, M., Torrents, D., & Bork, P. (2006). PAL2NAL: robust conversion of protein sequence alignments into the corresponding codon alignments. Nucleic acids research, W609–W612. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkl315

Categories

protein, sequencing, alignment