title: ALINE: a WYSIWYG protein-sequence alignment editor for publication-quality alignments.
abstract: Marked-up sequence alignments typically provide the central figure in articles describing proteins, whether in the fields of biochemistry, bioinformatics or structural biology. The generation of these figures is often unwieldy: interactive programs are often aesthetically limited and the use of batch programs requires the repetitive iterative editing of scripts. ALINE is a portable interactive graphical sequence-alignment editor implemented in Perl/Tk which produces publication-quality sequence-alignment figures where "what you see is what you get". ALINE is freely available for download from http://crystal.bcs.uwa.edu.au/px/charlie/software/aline/.
authors.affiliation: School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. charles.bond@uwa.edu.au
authors.forename: Charles Simon
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Bond
authors.forename: Alexander Wolfgang
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Schüttelkopf
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003196:Computer Graphics; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins