CINEMA 5

The CINEMA 5 sequence alignment editor is available for free download.

-- 17th November 2004 New version: 0.2.1-BETA. See here for details of additions, changes & bug fixes in the current release.

Features

CINEMA 5 (Colour INteractive Editor for Multiple Alignments) is an interactive visual tool for the interpretation and manipulation of protein and DNA sequences. CINEMA 5 allows the user to interactively construct and edit and visualise multiple sequence alignments. CINEMA 5 provides a highly intuitive, flexible and user-friendly interface with many features:

Intuitive mouse-controlled interface for navigating and editing an alignment
Optimised rendering for large sequences
Multiple different alignments may be opened for editing simultaneously
Many views can be created simultaneously onto a single alignment
Support for many popular protein file formats
Breakpoints allow aligned sections to be protected from edits elsewhere in the sequence
Flexible zoom controls allow an alignment to be visualised at varying levels of detail
Hierarchical grouping to simplify editing tasks
Flexible sub-sequence searching allowing wildcard and fuzzy searching using customisable substitution matrices
Advanced editing tools, such a hierarchical sequence groups & search-guided alignment
Integrated access to the UniProt Universal Protein Resource.

See the online help file for more details

Problems, bug reports, comments...

If you have any problems downloading or installing CINEMA 5, want to report a bug, or if you have any comments/suggestions then please contact us via the Utopia user group. This group provides a forum for end users of the Utopia project. For the latest information about CINEMA 5, announcements of forthcoming updates and access to the message board archive please become a memebr of the group. You can join by visiting the group home page and clicking on the 'Join This Group!' button.

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