VisCoSe: visualization and comparison of consensus sequences

Bioinformatics. 2004 Feb 12;20(3):433-5. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg444. Epub 2004 Jan 22.

Abstract

We introduce visualization and comparison of consensus sequences (VisCoSe) as a WWW service and a stand-alone command line Perl script for visualizing and comparing consensus sequences of protein and nucleotide sequences. VisCoSe is the only interface available that simultaneously calculates consensus sequences of multiple data sets and automatically compares these consensus sequences. Furthermore, VisCoSe allows visualization of chemical properties of amino acids.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Base Sequence
  • Consensus Sequence*
  • Database Management Systems
  • Hypermedia
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Sequence Alignment / methods*
  • Sequence Analysis / methods*
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface*