Stable release 1 Licence Open source | Type Bioinformatics tool Website Handel homepage | |
Developer(s) Ian Holmes (UC Berkeley) Operating system | ||
Handel is a suite of programs for multiple sequence alignment. Since it is based on a model of DNA sequence evolution that explicitly incorporates insertion and deletion events, it effectively doubles as a program for ancestral sequence reconstruction.
The theory underpinning Handel is based on the finite state transducer, a concept borrowed from computational linguistics.
Handel can be downloaded as part of the DART software package. It accepts input files in Stockholm format.
References
Handel (bioinformatics software package) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA