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muscle

Multiple Sequence Alignment with MUSCLE

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 3.55.0

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3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

MUSCLE performs multiple sequence alignments of nucleotide or amino acid sequences.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.muscle

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("muscle")

Details

MaintainerAlex T. Kalinka <alex.t.kalinka@gmail.com>
AuthorAlgorithm by Robert C. Edgar. R port by Alex T. Kalinka.
LicenseUnlimited
URLhttp://www.drive5.com/muscle/
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsAlignment, DataImport, Genetics, MultipleSequenceAlignment, SequenceMatching, Sequencing, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/muscle/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("muscle"):

Algorithm by Robert C. Edgar. R port by Alex T. Kalinka. muscle: Multiple Sequence Alignment with MUSCLE. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.muscle, R package version 3.55.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/muscle.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packagemuscle_3.55.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)muscle_3.55.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)muscle_3.55.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)muscle_3.55.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: Biostrings

Reverse dependencies

Suggests Me (4): BOLDconnectR, BOLDNODE, orthGS, seqmagick