Bioinformatics Vol. 17 no. 5 2001
Pages 415-418
© 2001 Oxford University Press
Retrieval and on-the-fly alignment of sequence fragments from the HIV database
HIV Database and Analysis Group (T10), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail stop K710, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Received on September 8, 2000
; revised on October 3, 2000
; accepted on October 6, 2000
Motivation: The amount of HIV-1 sequence data generated (presently around 42000 sequences, of which more than 22000 are from the V3 region of the viral envelope) presents a challenge for anyone working on the analysis of these data. A major problem is obtaining the region of interest from the stored sequences, which often contain but are not limited to that region. In addition, multiple alignment programs generally cannot deal with the large numbers of sequences that are available for many HIV-1 regions. We set out to provide our users with a tool that will retrieve and create an initial alignment of the HIV sequences that are available for a given genomic region.
Results: The MPAlign (Multiple Pairwise
Alignment) web interface is a collection of Perl scripts that
retrieves sequences from the Los Alamos HIV sequence database based
on a number of search parameters. All sequences were
pairwise-aligned to a model sequence using the Hidden Markov
Model-based program HMMER. The HMMER model is general enough to
accommodate virtually all HIV-1 sequences stored in the database. To
create a multiple sequence alignment, gaps were inserted into the
sequences during retrieval, so that they are aligned to one another.
Retrieving and aligning the almost 560 gp120 sequences
(
1500 nt) stored in the database is at least 1500 times
faster than a similar Clustal alignment.
Availability: At http://www.hiv.lanl.gov/
Contact: Brian Gaschen at bkg{at}lanl.gov
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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