AliView: a fast and lightweight alignment viewer and editor for large data sets

• Summary: AliView is an alignment viewer and editor designed tomeet the requirements of next generation sequencing era phyloge-netic datasets. AliView handles alignments of unlimited size in theformats most commonly used, i.e. Fasta, Phylip, Nexus, Clustal andMSF. The intuitive graphical interface makes it easy to inspect, sort,delete, merge and realign sequences as part of the manual filteringprocess of large data sets. AliView also works as an easy to usealignment editor for small as well as large data sets.Availability: AliView is released as open-source software under theGNU General Public License, version 3.0 (GPLv3), and is availableat GitHub (www.github.com/AliView). The program is cross-platformand extensively tested on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows systems.Downloads and help are available at http://ormbunkar.se/aliviewContact: anders.larsson@ebc.uu.seSupplementary information:

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi -- Bioinformatik och systembiologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences -- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (hsv//eng)

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Bioinformatik

Bioinformatics

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