kalign: Multiple Sequence Alignment (Kalign)

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References Examples

Description

Runs Kalign progressive multiple sequence alignment on a set of sequences.

Usage

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kalign(x, param=NULL)
kalign_help()

Arguments

x

an object of class DNAStringSet with the sequences to be aligned.

param

character string with the command line parameters for kalign (see output of kalign_help()).

Details

The kalign software has to be installed (see rMSA_INSTALL).

Value

An object of class DNAMultipleAlignment (see BioStrings).

Author(s)

Michael Hahsler

References

Lassmann T., Sonnhammer E. Kalign - an accurate and fast multiple sequence alignment algorithm, BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:298

Examples

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## Not run: 
dna <- readDNAStringSet(system.file("examples/DNA_example.fasta",
	package="rMSA"))
dna

### align the sequences
al <- kalign(dna)
al

## End(Not run)

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