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MAFFT-HOMOLOGS(1)		  Mafft Manual		       MAFFT-HOMOLOGS(1)

NAME
     mafft-homologs  -	aligns	sequences together with homologues automatically
     collected from SwissProt via NCBI BLAST

SYNOPSIS
     mafft-homologs [options] input [> output]

DESCRIPTION
     The accuracy of an alignment of a few distantly related sequences	is  con-
     siderably	improved  when being aligned together with their close homologs.
     The reason for the improvement is probably the same as that for  PSI-BLAST.
     That  is,	the positions of highly conserved residues, those with many gaps
     and other additional information is brought by close homologs. According to
     Katoh et al. (2005), the improvement by adding close homologs is 10% or so,
     which is comparable to the improvement by incorporating structural informa-
     tion of a pair of sequences. Mafft-homologs in a mafft  server  works  like
     this:

       1.  Collect  a  number  (50 by default) of close homologs (E=1e-10 by de-
	 fault) of the input sequences.

      2.  Align the input sequences and homologs all together using the  L-INS-i
	 strategy.

      3.  Remove the homologs.

OPTIONS
     -a n
	 The number of collected sequences (default: 50).

     -e n
	 Threshold value (default: 1e-10).

     -o xxx
	 Options  for  mafft  (default: " --op 1.53 --ep 0.123 --maxiterate 1000
	 --localpair --reorder").

     -l
	 Locally carries out BLAST searches instead of NCBI BLAST (requires  lo-
	 cally installed BLAST and a database).

     -f
	 Outputs collected homologues also (default: off).

     -w
	 entire  sequences  are subjected to BLAST search (default: well-aligned
	 region only)

REQUIREMENTS
     MAFFT version > 5.58.

     Either of

	 lynx (when remote BLAST server is used)

	 BLAST and a protein sequence database (when local BLAST is used)

REFERENCES
     Katoh, Kuma, Toh and Miyata (Nucleic Acids  Res.  33:511-518,  2005)  MAFFT
     version 5: improvement in accuracy of multiple sequence alignment.

SEE ALSO
     mafft(1)

AUTHORS
     Kazutaka Katoh <katoh_at_bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp.>
	 Wrote Mafft.

     Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>
	 Wrote	this  manpage  in DocBook XML for the Debian distribution, using
	 Mafft's homepage as a template.

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Kazutaka Katoh (mafft)
     Copyright (C) 2007 Charles Plessy (this manpage)

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      3.  The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote	products
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mafft-homologs 2.1		   2007-06-09		       MAFFT-HOMOLOGS(1)

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