Clustal Omega

Owned by Simon Alexander, created
Jul 12, 2023
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1 Overview | 2 Using | 2.1 Multicore

Overview

  • Clustal Omega: Clustal Omega is the latest addition to the Clustal family. It offers a significant increase in scalability over previous versions, allowing hundreds of thousands of sequences to be aligned in only a few hours. It will also make use of multiple processors, where present. In addition, the quality of alignments is superior to previous versions, as measured by a range of popular benchmarks.

Using

Use the module name clustal-omega to discover versions available and to load the application.

Multicore

The Clustal Omega application allows you define multiple cores by using the clustalo --threads=<n> option. See clustalo --help for more information.