Shade sequence alignments with Boxshade

This tool uses Boxshade to create good looking printouts from multiple-aligned protein or DNA sequences. If you need a Desktop application, please check out pyBoxshade.

Step 1: load alignment file


Input format:

Output format:

I only know RTF, ps, eps and html formats. For the others, you need to add file extension to the output file name.

add ruler to the alignment?
add sequence position number?
create consensus line?
input is aligned DNA sequences?
the fraction of sequences that must agree for a consensus (0-1)
output width

Step 2: Start shading

Help

Boxshade supports input files with formats:

  1. Lineup-PRETTY/Pileup-MSF file
  2. CLUSTAL .ALN file
  3. MALIGNED data file
  4. ESEE save file
  5. PHYLIP file
  6. fasta file

And write shaded alignment to:

  • ( 1) POSTSCRIPT
  • ( 2) encapsulated POSTSCRIPT
  • ( 3) HPGL
  • ( 4) RTF (Rich Text Format)
  • ( 5) PC-screen (PCs only!)
  • ( 6) ANSI-screen (PC-version)
  • ( 7) VT100-screen (DEC-version)
  • ( 8) ReGIS-screen (25 lines each
  • ( 9) ReGIS-file (without breaks)
  • ( a) LJ250-printer file
  • ( b) ASCII file
  • ( c) FIG file (for XFIG)
  • ( d) PICT file
  • ( e) HTML file

An edited version of Boxshade v3.3 source can be found here:
https://github.com/pinbo/boxshade