MAFFT
| Developer(s) | Kazutaka Katoh |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 6.935
/ 21 August 2012 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | UNIX, Linux, Mac, MS-Windows |
| Type | Bioinformatics tool |
| Licence | Free for academic users |
| Website | website |
In bioinformatics, MAFFT is a multiple sequence alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences.[1][2] The software is named after the acronym Multiple Alignment using Fast Fourier Transform after the major computational technique used by the method. MAFFT is freely available for academic use, without any warranty.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Katoh, Kazutaka; Misawa, Kazuharu; Kuma, Kei-ichi; Miyata, Takashi (2002). "MAFFT: a novel method for rapid multiple sequence alignment based on fast Fourier transform". Nucleic Acids Research. 30 (14): 3059–66. doi:10.1093/nar/gkf436. PMC 135756. PMID 12136088.
- ^ Katoh, Kazutaka; Kuma, Kei-ichi; Toh, Hiroyuki; Miyata, Takashi (2005). "MAFFT version 5: improvement in accuracy of multiple sequence alignment". Nucleic Acids Research. 33 (2): 511–8. doi:10.1093/nar/gki198. PMC 548345. PMID 15661851.
- ^ MAFFT license
External links
- Official website
- MAFFT Online Server
- MAFFT server at EBI
- ClustalW / MAFFT / PRRN at GenomeNet
- ClustalW / TCoffee / MAFFT in MyHits, SIB
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