Colorstock, SScolor, Ratón: RNA alignment visualization tools.
Interactive examination of RNA multiple alignments for covariant mutations is a useful step in non-coding RNA sequence analysis. We present three parallel implementations of an RNA visualization metaphor: Colorstock, a command-line script using ANSI terminal color; SScolor, a Perl script that generates static HTML pages; and Ratón, an AJAX web application generating dynamic HTML. Each tool can be used to color RNA alignments by secondary structure and to visually highlight compensatory mutations in stems.


BACKGROUND
All source code is freely available under the GPL. The source code can be downloaded and a prototype of Ratón can be accessed at http://biowiki.org/RnaAlignmentViewers.
Bendaña
Yuri R
YR
Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Holmes
Ian H
IH
D001483:Base Sequence; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software
D012367:RNA, Viral