Does The Clustal Omega Multiple Sequence Alignment Tool Incorporate Structure Into The Alignment?

Question

[amod47463]

Hi,

Does the Clustal Omega incorporate structure into the alignment (I do not think that it does but I would like to confirm) and if not why is this the case?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

[Andreas]

Hi amod47463,

no, Clustal Omega does not incorporate structure into the alignment, at least not yet (version 1.1.0).

The answer to the why is relatively simple: because it's not straight-forward and easy to do.

Andreas (one of the authors)