Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on June 5, 2007
Bioinformatics 2007 23(16):2178-2179; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm293
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Alvira: comparative genomics of viral strains

1Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire INRA UMR444, Chemin de Borde Rouge BP52627 31326 Castanet Tolosan Cedex and 2Laboratoire des Interactions Hotes-Agents Pathogènes ENVT UMR1225, 23 chemin des Capelles 31000 Toulouse, France
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Motivation: The Alvira tool is a general purpose multiple sequence alignment viewer with a special emphasis on the comparative analysis of viral genomes. This new tool has been devised specifically to address the problem of the simultaneous analysis of a large number of viral strains. The multiple alignment is embedded in a graph that can be explored at different levels of resolution.
Availability: The Alvira software is available at: http://bioinfo.genopole-toulouse.prd.fr/Alvira
Contact: fenault{at}toulouse.inra.fr
Supplementary information: A tutorial is available at Alvira's homepage.
Associate Editor: Chris Stoeckert
The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first two authors should be regarded as joint First Authors.
Received on March 21, 2007; revised on May 18, 2007; accepted on May 23, 2007