| Title | MAXSEGS |
| Revision | 2.6 |
| Purpose | Optimal local sequence alignment |
| Package type | Program |
| Application area | Biomedical, Sequence alignment |
| Abstract | MAXSEGS is an optimal local sequence alignment program. It can be used with both nucleic acid sequences and protein sequences. The user can define many different options, such as an alphabet and a scoring matrix, and limit the number of aligned segments retrieved. |
| Submittor | Alex Ropelewski |
| Contact | Alex Ropelewski |
| Phone | 412-268-4960 |
| ropelewski@psc.edu | |
| Company/ Institution | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 |
| CUG Site Code | PSC |
| Distribution method | contact the following person: Alex Ropelewski |
| URL | |
| Distribution restrictions | none |
| Copyright | Copyright by PSC, with a free license to users to make a local copy. No redistribution is allowed. |
| License required | no |
| License fee | n.a. |
| Hardware | |
| Operating System | UNICOS 6.0 |
| Compiler(s) | CFT77 |
| Program support | When schedule permits |
| Documentation | README file, User Manual, test data |
| Portability to other UNIX systems | Any machine with a FORTRAN compiler, and which uses the ASCII collating sequence. |
| Additional comments | A version of MAXSEGS exists which distributes the computation between the Cray YMP and the Connection Machine. MAXSEGS uses the algorithm of Michael Waterman and Mark Eggert, Journal of Molecular Biology, (1987), Volume 197, pages 723:728. MAXSEGS accepts input in a wide variety of formats, including NBRF-PIR, EMBL and GENBANK. |