[BioPython] ClustalW Multiple Alignment

[paul m]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:21 AM,  <lueck at ipk-gatersleben.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I want to align several sequences under the allowance to check whether there
> are reversed complement.
>
> That means I align all sequences against a reference sequence and then
> reversed complement them and align them again. After that I want to compare
> the score and choose the better once.
> Now my question:
>
> How can I get the score? Unfortunately it's not in the dnd file. In an old
> message of this mailing list, it's was written that it's in the log file.
> Does this has been removed?

I think Thomas Mailund's ClustalW package will allow you to get the scores:

See:

http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mailund/clustalw_wrapper.html


--Paul