man muscle (Commandes) - Multiple Protein Sequence Alignment

NAME

muscle - Multiple Protein Sequence Alignment

SYNOPSIS

muscle [-in input file (fasta)] [-out output file (default fasta)] [-log log file] [-maxiters n] [-maxhours n] [-clw] [-clwstrict] [-html] [-msf] [-quiet] [-group] [-stable] [-version] [-out output file]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the muscle command.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

muscle aligns protein sequences and is considered superior and faster than clustalw.

OPTIONS

-in input file
Path to FASTA formatted input file
-out output file
Path to output file, FASTA formatted by default.
-maxiters n
Maximum number of iterations (integer, default 16)
-maxhours n
Maximum time to iterate in hours (default no limit)
-clw
Write output in CLUSTALW format (default FASTA)
-clwstrict
As -clw, with 'CLUSTAL W (1.81)' header
-html
Write output in HTML format (default FASTA)
-msf
Write output in MSF format (default FASTA)
-log[a] logfile
Log to file (append if -loga, overwrite if -log)
-quiet
Do not write progress messages to stderr
-stable
Output sequences in input order (default is -group)
-group
Group sequences by similarity (this is the default)
-version
Display version information and exit

SEE ALSO

clustalw (1), seaview (1).

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Steffen Moeller <moeller@pzr.uni-rostock.de> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

AUTHOR

Steffen Moeller.