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MAFFT

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Developer(s)
  
Kazutaka Katoh

Type
  
Bioinformatics tool

Written in
  
C

Stable release
  
7.299 / 28 June 2016; 7 months ago (2016-06-28)

Operating system
  
UNIX, Linux, Mac, MS-Windows

Licence
  
Free for academic users

In bioinformatics, MAFFT is a multiple sequence alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences. The software is named after the acronym Multiple Alignment using Fast Fourier Transform after the major computational technique used by the method. MAFFT is freely available for academic use, without any warranty.

References

MAFFT Wikipedia