title: Alvira: comparative genomics of viral strains.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Alvira tool is a general purpose multiple sequence alignment viewer with a special emphasis on the comparative analysis of viral genomes. This new tool has been devised specifically to address the problem of the simultaneous analysis of a large number of viral strains. The multiple alignment is embedded in a graph that can be explored at different levels of resolution.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The Alvira software is available at: http://bioinfo.genopole-toulouse.prd.fr/Alvira.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  A tutorial is available at Alvira's homepage.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire INRA UMR444, Chemin de Borde Rouge BP52627 31326 Castanet Tolosan Cedex, France. fenault@toulouse.inra.fr
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Enault
authors.forename: Romain
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fremez
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Baranowski
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Faraut
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D016679:Genome, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014780:Viruses / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*