QAlign: quality-based multiple alignments with dynamic phylogenetic analysis

Summary: Integrating different alignment strategies, a layout editor and tools deriving phylogenetic trees in a‘ multiple alignment environment’ helps to investigate and enhance results of multiple sequence alignment by hand. QAlign combines algorithms for fast progressive and accurate simultaneous multiple alignment with a versatile editor and a dynamic phylogenetic analysis in a convenient graphical user interface. Availability: QAlign is freely available over the internet at http://www.ridom.de/qalign/. The platform-independent JAVA technology used provides distributions for various operating systems and hardware architectures.