Tcoffee@igs: a web server for computing, evaluating and combining multiple sequence alignments Olivier Poirot, Eamonn O'Toole and Cedric Notredame Nucleic Acids Research, 31, 3503-3506 (2003) July 22, 2003 Park, Ji-Yoon
Abstract Tcoffee@igs Web-based tool to the computation, the evaluation & combination of multiple alignment The latest version of the T-Coffee package Provided by Hewlet Packard & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Can be used for align protein, RNA or DNA 100 sequences (2,000 residues long) process available
Related Publication T-Coffee: A novel method for multiple sequence alignments. C.Notredame, D. Higgins, J. Heringa,Journal of Molecular Biology,Vol 302, pp205-217,2000 [pdf] COFFEE: A New Objective Function For Multiple Sequence Alignmnent. C. Notredame, L. Holme and D.G. Higgins, Bioinformatics,Vol 14 (5) 407-422,1998 [pdf]
http://igs-server.cnrs-mrs.fr/
Tcoffee
Methods Multiple sequence alignment assembly - Given a set of pre-selected protein or DNA seq, computes a multiple seq alignment of the input sequences - By computing a collection of pair-wise alignment [ the best global alignment & 10 best local alignment ] - The highest level of consistency with alignment within the library Computing a multiple alignment - FASTA form sequence Evaluating a multiple alignment - evaluate pre-computed multiple sequence alignment IV. Combine multiple alignments
Output of T-Coffee Computation
Colored Output of T-Coffee
Conclusion & Future Developments Tcoffee@igs A new multiple sequence alignment server To produce high quality multiple sequence alignment Further development - Enhanced regarding the mixing of sequences & structure