Geneious

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Alignment Features in Geneious Pro™

Easily select the sequences you want to align without having to juggle files on disk or copy/paste. Click the Alignment button to begin, then quickly switch between the following array of alignment algorithms available in Geneious Pro™.

Alignment methods in Geneious Pro

Geneious Align – Align with Needleman-Wunsch and Smith-Waterman for pairwise alignments or our own implementation of a progressive pairwise algorithm for multiple alignments

ClustalW – Launch the power of ClustalW from inside Geneious Pro to align your DNA or protein sequences or send to a supercomputer in New Zealand via the GreenButton plugin

MUSCLE – Choose MUSCLE from within Geneious Pro to run one of the fastest and most advanced options for iterative sequence alignment

MAFFT – Run the new, ultra-fast and accurate alignment method for aligning DNA or protein sequences by downloading the MAFFT plugin (New in Geneious Pro 5.0)

Translation Align – Create a DNA alignment based on the translated amino acid sequence, then view your original DNA sequences in a single step without ever dealing with amino acid sequence data

Profile Align – Align new sequences to an existing alignment with profile alignment to boost the signal to noise ratio for the conserved regions of the existing alignment

Consensus Align – Align two alignments or new sequences to an existing alignment using consensus alignment

Mauve Genome Align – The Mauve genome alignment plugin aligns whole genomes and provides specialized visualization tool for comparing large scale differences among multiple genomes such as rearrangements, translocations and inversions based on Mauve by Aaron Darling

Watch this 5-minute Video about Sequence Alignment