SEQALSV
Sequence Alignment-based Sequence Variability

Service Description


SEQALSV service is designed to facilitate calculation of sequence alignments between a given sequence (query) and a library of provided sequences. Calculations are performed using Smith-Waterman and BLAST algorithms.

For SEQALSV processing all sequences (query sequence and a library) should be entered in FASTA format.

   A sequence in FASTA format begins with a single-line description, followed by 
   lines of sequence data. The description line is distinguished from the sequence
   data by a greater-than (">") symbol in the first column (see an example below):

>Name
RKNGLNVKMDYTPNSGQLVRNLLNGKYNIAVAGIDNVIAYQEGQVKEPVVNPDMFAFYGV
KELKLDYELKPMDFSGIIPALQTKNVDLALAGITITDERKKAIDFSDGYYK

References:

[1] Smith, T. F., Waterman, M. S. (1981). Identification of common molecular
    subsequences. J Mol Biol 147(1), 195-197.

[2] Pearson, W. R. (1991). Searching protein sequence libraries: comparison of the
    sensitivity and selectivity of the Smith-Waterman and FASTA algorithms.
    Genomics11:635-650.

[3] Altschul, S. F., Madden, T. L., Schaffer, A. A., Zhang, J., Zhang, Z.,
    Miller, W., Lipman, D. J. (1997). Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new
    generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res 25(17),
    3389-3402.