Type Bioinformatics tool | Licence GPL | |
Developer(s) Andrew Waterhouse, James Procter, David Martin and Geoffrey Barton at the University of Dundee.
Original version by Michele Clamp, James Cuff, Stephen Searle, Geoffrey Barton. Stable release 2.10.1 / 29 November 2016; 3 months ago (2016-11-29) Operating system | ||
Jalview is a piece of bioinformatics software that is used to look at and edit multiple sequence alignments. It is written in the Java programming language. The programme was originally written by Michele Clamp whilst working in Geoff Barton's group at the EBI. Jalview 2, a re-engineered version produced by Andrew Waterhouse and Jim Procter whilst working in Geoff Barton's group at the University of Dundee, was released in 2005, and its development is supported by the BBSRC.
It is used widely by a variety of web servers (e.g. the EBI ClustalW server and the Pfam protein domain database) but is available as a general purpose alignment editor.
Jalview has a wide range of functions in addition to multiple sequence alignment viewing and editing including calculating phylogenetic trees and viewing molecular structures. Many of these use external web services to import data.