title: ALTER: program-oriented conversion of DNA and protein alignments.
abstract: ALTER is an open web-based tool to transform between different multiple sequence alignment formats. The originality of ALTER lies in the fact that it focuses on the specifications of mainstream alignment and analysis programs rather than on the conversion among more or less specific formats. In addition, ALTER is capable of identify and remove identical sequences during the transformation process. Besides its user-friendly environment, ALTER allows access to its functionalities in a programmatic way through a Representational State Transfer web service. ALTER's front-end and its API are freely available at http://sing.ei.uvigo.es/ALTER/ and http://sing.ei.uvigo.es/ALTER/api/, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Informática, Universidad de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Glez-Peña
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gómez-Blanco
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reboiro-Jato
authors.forename: Florentino
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fdez-Riverola
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Posada
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein; D012984:Software