MUSCLE(1)

NAME

muscle - Multiple Protein Sequence Alignment

SYNOPSIS

muscle -in input file (fasta) [-out output file (default fasta)]
       [-diags] [-log log file] [-maxiters n] [-maxhours n] [-maxmb m]
       [-html] [-msf] [-clw] [-clwstrict] [-log[a] logfile] [-quiet]
       [-stable] [-group] [-version]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the muscle command.

muscle aligns protein sequences and is considered superior and faster than Clustal W.

OPTIONS

-in input file
Path to FASTA formatted input file
-out output file
Path to output file, FASTA formatted by default
-diags
Find diagonals (faster for similar sequences)
-maxiters n
Maximum number of iterations (integer, default 16)
-maxhours n
Maximum time to iterate in hours (default no limit)
-maxmb m
Maximum memory to allocate in Mb (default 80% of RAM)
-html
Write output in HTML format (default FASTA)
-msf
Write output in MSF format (default FASTA)
-clw
Write output in Clustal W format (default FASTA)
-clwstrict
As -clw, with 'CLUSTAL W (1.81)' header
-log[a] logfile
Log to file (append if -loga, overwrite if -log)
-quiet
Do not write progress messages to stderr
-stable
Output sequences in input order (default is -group)
-group
Group sequences by similarity (this is the default)
-version
Display version information and exit

SEE ALSO

clustalw(1), seaview(1), t_coffee(1).

AUTHORS

Robert Elgar
Wrote Muscle.
Steffen Moeller <moeller@debian.org>
Wrote this manpage.
Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>
Updated this manpage.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Steffen Moeller (manpage)
Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Charles Plessy (manpage)

Muscle is in the public domain, and therefore not subjected to
copyright.

This manual page was written by Steffen Moeller moeller@debian.org for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document as if it were
in public domain.
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