title: EMBL-Align: a new public nucleotide and amino acid multiple sequence alignment database.
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.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  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/
authors.affiliation: EMBL Outstation The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. align@ebi.ac.uk
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lombard
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Camon
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Parkinson
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hingamp
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stoesser
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Redaschi
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D030562:Databases, Protein; D016678:Genome; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States