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clustalo(1) USER COMMANDS clustalo(1) NAME
clustalo - General purpose multiple sequence alignment program for proteins SYNOPSIS
clustalo [-h] DESCRIPTION
Clustal-Omega is a general purpose multiple sequence alignment (MSA) program for proteins. It produces high quality MSAs and is capable of handling data-sets of hundreds of thousands of sequences in reasonable time. In default mode, users give a file of sequences to be aligned and these are clustered to produce a guide tree and this is used to guide a "progressive alignment" of the sequences. There are also facilities for aligning existing alignments to each other, aligning a sequence to an alignment and for using a hidden Markov model (HMM) to help guide an alignment of new sequences that are homologous to the sequences used to make the HMM. This latter procedure is referred to as "external profile alignment" or EPA. Clustal-Omega uses HMMs for the alignment engine, based on the HHalign package from Johannes Soeding [1]. Guide trees are made using an enhanced version of mBed [2] which can cluster very large numbers of sequences in O(N*log(N)) time. Multiple alignment then proceeds by aligning larger and larger alignments using HHalign, following the clustering given by the guide tree. In its current form Clustal-Omega can only align protein sequences but not DNA/RNA sequences. It is envisioned that DNA/RNA will become available in a future version. USAGE
Tool usage is available in /usr/share/doc/clustalo/README. DEVELOPMENT
Headers and libraries are available in libclustalo-dev package. CITING
Sievers F, Wilm A, Dineen DG, Gibson TJ, Karplus K, Li W, Lopez R, McWilliam H, Remmert M, Soding J, Thompson JD, Higgins DG (2011). Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega. Mol Syst Biol 7. AUTHOR
Olivier Sallou (olivier.sallou (at) irisa.fr) - Man page and packaging Conway Institute UCD Dublin (clustalw (at) ucd.ie) - clustalo version 1.0.3 December 14, 2011 clustalo(1)
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CD-HIT-EST(1) User Commands CD-HIT-EST(1) NAME
cdhit-est - run CD-HIT algorithm on RNA/DNA sequences SYNOPSIS
cdhit-est [Options] DESCRIPTION
====== CD-HIT version 4.6 (built on Apr 26 2012) ====== Options -i input filename in fasta format, required -o output filename, required -c sequence identity threshold, default 0.9 this is the default cd-hit's "global sequence identity" calculated as: number of identical amino acids in alignment divided by the full length of the shorter sequence -G use global sequence identity, default 1 if set to 0, then use local sequence identity, calculated as : number of identical amino acids in alignment divided by the length of the alignment NOTE!!! don't use -G 0 unless you use alignment coverage controls see options -aL, -AL, -aS, -AS -b band_width of alignment, default 20 -M memory limit (in MB) for the program, default 800; 0 for unlimitted; -T number of threads, default 1; with 0, all CPUs will be used -n word_length, default 10, see user's guide for choosing it -l length of throw_away_sequences, default 10 -d length of description in .clstr file, default 20 if set to 0, it takes the fasta defline and stops at first space -s length difference cutoff, default 0.0 if set to 0.9, the shorter sequences need to be at least 90% length of the representative of the cluster -S length difference cutoff in amino acid, default 999999 if set to 60, the length difference between the shorter sequences and the representative of the cluster can not be bigger than 60 -aL alignment coverage for the longer sequence, default 0.0 if set to 0.9, the alignment must covers 90% of the sequence -AL alignment coverage control for the longer sequence, default 99999999 if set to 60, and the length of the sequence is 400, then the alignment must be >= 340 (400-60) residues -aS alignment coverage for the shorter sequence, default 0.0 if set to 0.9, the alignment must covers 90% of the sequence -AS alignment coverage control for the shorter sequence, default 99999999 if set to 60, and the length of the sequence is 400, then the alignment must be >= 340 (400-60) residues -A minimal alignment coverage control for the both sequences, default 0 alignment must cover >= this value for both sequences -uL maximum unmatched percentage for the longer sequence, default 1.0 if set to 0.1, the unmatched region (excluding leading and tailing gaps) must not be more than 10% of the sequence -uS maximum unmatched percentage for the shorter sequence, default 1.0 if set to 0.1, the unmatched region (excluding leading and tail- ing gaps) must not be more than 10% of the sequence -U maximum unmatched length, default 99999999 if set to 10, the unmatched region (excluding leading and tailing gaps) must not be more than 10 bases -B 1 or 0, default 0, by default, sequences are stored in RAM if set to 1, sequence are stored on hard drive it is recommended to use -B 1 for huge databases -p 1 or 0, default 0 if set to 1, print alignment overlap in .clstr file -g 1 or 0, default 0 by cd-hit's default algorithm, a sequence is clustered to the first cluster that meet the threshold (fast clus- ter). If set to 1, the program will cluster it into the most similar cluster that meet the threshold (accurate but slow mode) but either 1 or 0 won't change the representatives of final clusters -r 1 or 0, default 1, by default do both +/+ & +/- alignments if set to 0, only +/+ strand alignment -mask masking letters (e.g. -mask NX, to mask out both 'N' and 'X') -match matching score, default 2 (1 for T-U and N-N) -mismatch mismatching score, default -2 -gap gap opening score, default -6 -gap-ext gap extension score, default -1 -bak write backup cluster file (1 or 0, default 0) -h print this help Questions, bugs, contact Limin Fu at l2fu@ucsd.edu, or Weizhong Li at liwz@sdsc.edu For updated versions and information, please visit: http://cd-hit.org cd-hit web server is also available from http://cd-hit.org If you find cd-hit useful, please kindly cite: "Clustering of highly homologous sequences to reduce thesize of large protein database", Weizhong Li, Lukasz Jaroszewski & Adam Godzik. Bioinformatics, (2001) 17:282-283 "Cd-hit: a fast program for clustering and comparing large sets of protein or nucleotide sequences", Weizhong Li & Adam Godzik. Bioinformatics, (2006) 22:1658-1659 cd-hit-est 4.6-2012-04-25 April 2012 CD-HIT-EST(1)