pyMSA

Scoring Multiple Sequence Alignments with Python


Keywords
entropy, fasta, gaps, msa, python, score, sequence-alignment, sumofpairs
License
MIT
Install
pip install pyMSA==0.8.1

Documentation


pyMSA

Scoring Multiple Sequence Alignments with Python

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pyMSA is an open source software tool aimed at providing a number of scores for multiple sequence alignment (MSA) problems. A tutorial about pyMSA is available in the resources folder of the proyect.

Features

Score functions implemented:

  • Sum of pairs,
  • Star,
  • Minimum entropy,
  • Percentage of non-gaps,
  • Percentage of totally conserved columns and
  • STRIKE (Single sTRucture Induced Evaluation).

Downloading

To download PyMSA just clone the Git repository hosted in GitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/benhid/pyMSA.git
$ python setup.py install

Alternatively, you can install it with pip:

$ pip install pyMSA

Usage

An example of running all the included scores is located in the example folder.


Terminal session

Authors

Active development team

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT - see the LICENSE file for details.