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MView - Introduction

MView reformats the results of a sequence database search (BLAST, FASTA, etc) or a multiple alignment (MSF, PIR, CLUSTAL, etc) adding optional HTML markup to control colouring and web page layout. MView is not a multiple alignment program, nor is it a general purpose alignment editor.

Get the software

The latest version of the software can be downloaded from the SourceForge MView project area as a UNIX/Linux gzipped tar archive or 'tarball'.

Further information

Frequently Asked Questions

Example output

BLAST HSP Processing Rules

System requirements

MView and its underlying class libraries are implemented in Perl, version 5, for UNIX, and should be easily portable to other systems.

As of MView release 1.40, the code requires a minimum of perl version 5.004.

Formatting and colouring of HTML alignments requires a fixed-width font (eg., Courier) and support for the <FONT> tag, so a modern browser such as Mozilla Firefox is recommended. In particular, use of style sheets as of MView release 1.40 requires that your browser supports HTML 4.0.

Citation

If you use MView in your work, please cite:

Brown, N.P., Leroy C., Sander C. (1998). MView: A Web compatible database search or multiple alignment viewer. Bioinformatics. 14(4):380-381. PubMed

Copyright and Licensing

MView and associated libraries are Open Source Software protected by the GPL. All users must adhere to these licensing terms, acceptance of which is implicit when the software is downloaded.

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