[Biojava-l] Alignment consensus calculation

[Remo Sanges]

Nathan S. Haigh wrote:

>I was wondering if there were any methods for generating a consensus
>sequence for alignments? Or any suggestions for calculating the frequency of
>symbols at each position in an alignment.
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>I had a look at the DistributionTools after seeing a past e-mail to the list
>but couldn’t figure if this would do the job as I’m new to Java.
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I'm also new to Java and Biojava,
BTW I have found very useful in the past
to do these kind of things using the
Bio::SimpleAlign module in Bioperl

HTH

Remo

>Thanks
>Nath
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