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Clustal
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Also known as ClustalW, ClustalX

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Key facts

Software.name
CLUSTAL
Software.latest_release_version
1.2.4
Software.operating_system
UNIX, Linux, MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD, Debian
Software.programming language
C++
Software.genre
Bioinformatics tool
Software.licence
GNU General Public License, version 2

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Encyclopedic overview

20 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Version history
  • Function
  • Input/output
  • Settings
  • Clustal and ClustalV
  • Algorithm
  • Notable ClustalV improvements
  • ClustalW
  • Algorithm
  • Time complexity
  • Accuracy and results
  • Clustal Omega
  • Algorithm
  • Time complexity
  • Accuracy and results
  • Clustal2 (ClustalW/ClustalX)
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

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Clustal is a computer program used for multiple sequence alignment in bioinformatics. It is one of the most widely cited bioinformatics software with two of its academic publications amongst the top 100 papers cited of all time, according to Nature in 2014.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clustal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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