title: MAVID multiple alignment server.
abstract: MAVID is a multiple alignment program suitable for many large genomic regions. The MAVID web server allows biomedical researchers to quickly obtain multiple alignments for genomic sequences and to subsequently analyse the alignments for conserved regions. MAVID has been successfully used for the alignment of closely related species such as primates and also for the alignment of more distant organisms such as human and fugu. The server is fast, capable of aligning hundreds of kilobases in less than a minute. The multiple alignment is used to build a phylogenetic tree for the sequences, which is subsequently used as a basis for identifying conserved regions in the alignment. The server can be accessed at http://baboon.math.berkeley.edu/mavid/.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, 970 Evans Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bray
authors.forename: Lior
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pachter
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D051381:Rats; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D023741:Takifugu / Q000235:genetics