> From: Barnali Chaudhuri <neel at mbi.ucla.edu> > Subject: [ssml] Multiple sequence alignment > To: ssml-general at bioinformatics.org > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507312251270.24473 at ewald.mbi.ucla.edu> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > Hi all, > > How can I "quickly" evaluate the significance of a > multiple sequence alignment (using entropy or some such)? > > Thanks > > Neel I guessing you mean computing column conservation. The program AL2CO provides a variety of such measures, including entropy. ftp:// iole.swmed.edu/pub/al2co Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab pett at cgl.ucsf.edu http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu