Clustal
| CLUSTAL | |
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| Developer(s) |
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| Stable release | 1.2.2
/ 1 July 2016 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | UNIX, Linux, MacOS, MS-Windows, FreeBSD, Debian |
| Type | Bioinformatics tool |
| Licence | GNU General Public License, version 2 |
| Website | www |
Clustal is a computer program used for multiple sequence alignment in bioinformatics. The software and its algorithms have gone through several iterations, with ClustalΩ (Omega) being the latest version as of 2011. It is available as standalone software, via a web interface, and through a server hosted by the European Bioinformatics Institute.
Clustal has been an important bioinformatic software, with two of its academic publications amongst the top 100 papers cited of all time, according to Nature in 2014.