README.md

Scoring Multiple Sequence Alignments with Python

pyMSA is an open source software tool aimed at providing a number of scores for multiple sequence alignment (MSA) problems. A tutorial about pyMSA is available in the resources folder of the proyect.

Features

Score functions implemented:

• Sum of pairs,
• Star,
• Minimum entropy,
• Percentage of non-gaps,
• Percentage of totally conserved columns and
• STRIKE (Single sTRucture Induced Evaluation).

Downloading

To download PyMSA just clone the Git repository hosted in GitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/benhid/pyMSA.git
$ python setup.py install

Alternatively, you can install it with pip:

$ pip install pyMSA

Usage

An example of running all the included scores is located in the example folder.

Authors

Active development team

• Antonio Benítez-Hidalgo antonio.b@uma.es
• Antonio J. Nebro antonio@lcc.uma.es

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT - see the LICENSE file for details.