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malform - displays alignments in easily readable form

synopsis

malform [-h] [-a] [-i] [-c] [-w#] [-m#] [-p#] [<align_file] [>output]

description

malform displays alignments given either the output of malign(1) or a single file containing sequences in pir(1) format. the most common usage,

malform < align_file

will display the final alignment in the file align_file and display these results with a default 60 residues across and to the standard output.

typically the output from malign(1) is directed to the format program malform(1) which will then display the alignment.

malign file_of_sequences | malform > output_file

the following options to malform are available:

-h a message describing the syntax of the program.

-a normally only the final alignment is printed; to print all intermediate alignments used to construct the final aligment, specify -a.

-i the percentage identities will be computed for the input sequences.

-c plots percent conservation as a segment average; 5 residue segments.

-w# width of alignment; # represents a positive integer.

-m# score alignment according to the matrix specified by the number #. type malform -h for the list of available matrices. the default penalty for gaps is 40.

-p# score alignment and access a gap penalty according to the value of #. the default matrix is the birkbeck matrix (johnson & overington (1993) j.mol.biol, 232, in press). the present matrix is composed from 97 families of aligned 3-d structures (381 structures in total).

<align_file
if the align_file is not specified output will be expected from the standard input.

>output
if the output is not specified the output will be directed to the screen (or standard output).

files

matxx.h - scoring matrices scaled between 0 and 100 (similarity) malform.h - include file

see also

malign(1), pir(1).

source

written by msj.

level

this page describes those features in malform 4.0 (formerly mformat) and later.
%m% %s% %j% - copyright (c) 1990 kram enterprises, inc.


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