Chimera: construction of chimeric sequences for phylogenetic analysis

• Published in: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 303 - 304
• Main Author: LEUNISSEN, Jack A. M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 22.01.2003; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence; Base Sequence; Bioinformatica; Bioinformatics; Biological and medical sciences; Biological Evolution; Chimera - classification; Chimera - genetics; Database Management Systems; Databases, Genetic; EPS-4; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gene Expression Profiling - methods; General aspects; Mathematics in biology. Statistical analysis. Models. Metrology. Data processing in biology (general aspects); Molecular Sequence Data; Phylogeny; Sequence Alignment - methods; Sequence Analysis - methods; Software; Species Specificity; User-Computer Interface; Computer program; Nucleotide sequence; Evolutionary algorithm; Graphical interface; Chimerism; Phylogeny; Web site; Bioinformatics; Aminoacid sequence
• ISSN: 1367-4803; 1367-4811
• DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/19.2.303

Chimera allows the construction of chimeric protein or nucleic acid sequence files by concatenating sequences from two or more sequence files in PHYLIP formats. It allows the user to interactively select genes and species from the input files. The concatenated result is stored to one single output file in PHYLIP or NEXUS formats. The computer program, including supporting files and example files, is available from http://www.dalicon.com/chimera/.