title: FASMA: a service to format and analyze sequences in multiple alignments.
abstract: Multiple sequence alignments are successfully applied in many studies for under- standing the structural and functional relations among single nucleic acids and protein sequences as well as whole families. Because of the rapid growth of sequence databases, multiple sequence alignments can often be very large and difficult to visualize and analyze. We offer a new service aimed to visualize and analyze the multiple alignments obtained with different external algorithms, with new features useful for the comparison of the aligned sequences as well as for the creation of a final image of the alignment. The service is named FASMA and is available at http://bioinformatica.isa.cnr.it/FASMA/.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Institute of Food Science, CNR, via Roma 52 A/C, 83100 Avellino, Italy.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Costantini
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Colonna
authors.forename: Angelo M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Facchiano
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology; D020407:Internet; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012984:Software