* Trace viewers

Program

Licence

Packaging

Importance

Listed on microbio.wml?

trev (Staden)

BSD

packaging the whole Staden seems difficlut

vital

yes (Staden)

abiview (Emboss)

GPL

Debian-Bioinformatics

vital as long as trev is not available

yes (emboss)

* Multiple alignment

Program

Licence

Packaging

Importance

Listed on microbio.wml?

t-coffee

GPL

main

free

yes

clustalw

academic

non-free

very popular

yes

muscle

Public domain

main

free

no

mafft

academic

looks easy

rare

no

prrn

academic

looks easy

rare

no

dialign

proprietary ?

no

rare ?

no

* Other software

Task

Program

Licence

Packaging

Importance

Listed on microbio.wml?

Command-line sequence manipulation

EMBOSS

L/GPL

unofficial

vital

yes

Multiple alignment (graphic)

pipmaker

GPL

looks easy

free alternative to vista?

no

Multiple alignment (graphic)

vista

academic

downloading sources require registration

popular

no

Alignment editor

xced

adademic

no sources available

rare

no