EMBL-Align: a new public nucleotide and amino acid multiple sequence alignment database

V Lombard; E B Camon; H E Parkinson; P Hingamp; G Stoesser; N Redaschi

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/18.5.763

EMBL-Align: a new public nucleotide and amino acid multiple sequence alignment database

Bioinformatics. 2002 May;18(5):763-4. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.5.763.

Authors

V Lombard¹, E B Camon, H E Parkinson, P Hingamp, G Stoesser, N Redaschi

Affiliation

¹ EMBL Outstation The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. [email protected]

PMID: 12050074
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.5.763

Abstract

The submission of multiple sequence alignment data to EMBL has grown 30-fold in the past 10 years, creating a problem of archiving them. The EBI has developed a new public database of multiple sequence alignments called EMBL-Align. It has a dedicated web-based submission tool, Webin-Align. Together they represent a comprehensive data management solution for alignment data. Webin-Align accepts all the common alignment formats and can display data in CLUSTALW format as well as a new standard EMBL-Align flat file format. The alignments are stored in the EMBL-Align database and can be queried from the EBI SRS (Sequence Retrieval System) server.

Availability: Webin-Align: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Submission/align_top.html, EMBL-Align: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/align, http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/

MeSH terms

Amino Acid Sequence
Base Sequence
Database Management Systems*
Databases, Nucleic Acid*
Databases, Protein*
Genome
Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
Internet
Molecular Sequence Data
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Sequence Alignment / methods*
United States