Cactus v2.0.1 – Genome Multiple Sequence Aligner

Cactus v2.0.1

:: DESCRIPTION

Cactus uses a cactus graph (aka cactus tree), a graph in which any edge is a member of at most one simple cycle, to construct a genome alignment. The aligner allows for arbitrary types of rearrangement and duplication, but favours alignments that create ‘chains’ of aligned bases.

::DEVELOPER

Benedict Paten (benedict (AT) soe.ucsc.edu)

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows/ Linux/ MacOsX
  • Python
  • C Compiler

:: DOWNLOAD

  Cactus

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Cactus: Algorithms for genome multiple sequence alignment.
Paten B, Earl D, Nguyen N, Diekhans M, Zerbino D, Haussler D.
Genome Res. 2011 Sep;21(9):1512-28. doi: 10.1101/gr.123356.111. Epub 2011 Jun 10.