MAVID is a multiple sequence alignment program suitable for the alignment of large numbers of DNA sequences.[1][2] The sequences can be small mitochondrial genomes or large genomic regions up to megabases long. The latest version is 2.0.4.

MAVID
Developer(s)Nicolas Bray (UC Berkeley), Lior Pachter (UC Berkeley)
Stable release
2.0.4
Operating systemUNIX, Linux, Mac
TypeBioinformatics tool
LicenceOpen source
WebsiteMAVID download

The program can be used through the MAVID web server or as a standalone program which can be installed with the source code.

Input/Output

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This program accepts sequences in FASTA format.

The output format includes: FASTA format, Clustal, PHYLIP.

References

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  1. ^ Dewey, Colin N. (2007), "Aligning Multiple Whole Genomes with Mercator and MAVID", in Bergman, Nicholas H. (ed.), Comparative Genomics, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 395, Humana Press, pp. 221–235, doi:10.1007/978-1-59745-514-5_14, ISBN 978-1-58829-693-1, PMID 17993677
  2. ^ Bray, Nicolas; Pachter, Lior (2003-07-01). "MAVID multiple alignment server". Nucleic Acids Research. 31 (13): 3525–3526. doi:10.1093/nar/gkg623. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 169029. PMID 12824358.
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