title: CINEMA-MX: a modular multiple alignment editor.
abstract: Analyzing and visualizing multiple sequence alignments is a common task in many areas of molecular biology and bioinformatics. Many tools exist for this purpose, but are not easily customizable for specific in-house uses. Here we report the development of an editor, CINEMA-MX, that addresses these issues. CINEMA-MX is highly modular and configurable, and we present examples to illustrate its extensibility.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The program and full source code, which are available from http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/cinema-mx, are being released under a combination of the LGPL and GPL, for Unix or Windows platforms.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. p.lord@russet.org.uk
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Lord
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Selley
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Attwood
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D015443:Word Processing