# muscle

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** muscle
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [http://www.drive5.com/muscle/](http://www.drive5.com/muscle/)

## Software Description

MUSCLE, **MU**ltiple **S**equence **C**omparison by **L**og-**E**xpectation, is a
program for creating multiple alignments of amino acid or nucleotide
sequences.  MUSCLE is claimed to achieve both better average accuracy
and better speed than ClustalW2 or T-Coffee, depending on the chosen
options.
## General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

	module load muscle

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of muscle available.
To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

	module avail muscle