muscle

Summary

• Module Name: muscle

• Support Level: Secondary Support

• Software Access Level: Open Access

• Home Page: http://www.drive5.com/muscle/

Software Description

MUSCLE, MUltiple Sequence Comparison by Log-Expectation, 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