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Making sequence alignments of related amino acid sequences is a common task in biology. It reveals regions which are highly conserved and are functionally important. Computational approaches alone are often not fully satisfactory and manual refinement is necessary in most cases particularly when the sequences are very dissimilar.

Strap is a comprehensive tool to edit multiple sequence alignments. A wide range of functions related to sequences and protein structures are accessible with an intuitive graphical interface.
Strap is tightly integrated into your desktop environment supporting Cut_paste and Word_completion and spell check. Drag_and_drop is available for sequences, residue selections, nucleotide structures and hetero structures. WIKI:Context_menus for sequences, residue selections and files are triggered by right mouse click.

With the help of the integrated tutorials you will learn how to apply the currently available methods to compare sequences and structures.

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