Scoring Multiple Sequence Alignments with Python
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.
Authors
Active development team
License
This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT - see the LICENSE file for details.