ICHEC Software
Information about software packages installed on the ICHEC systems.
Gblocks
Versions Installed
Stokes: 0.91b
Description
Gblocks is a computer program written in ANSI C language that eliminates poorly aligned positions and divergent regions of an alignment of DNA or protein sequences. These positions may not be homologous or may have been saturated by multiple substitutions and it is convenient to eliminate them prior to phylogenetic analysis. Gblocks selects blocks in a similar way as it is usually done by hand but following a reproducible set of conditions. The selected blocks must fulfill certain requirements with respect to the lack of large segments of contiguous nonconserved positions, lack of gap positions and high conservation of flanking positions, making the final alignment more suitable for phylogenetic analysis. Gblocks outputs several files to visualize the selected blocks. The use of a program such as Gblocks reduces the necessity of manually editing multiple alignments, makes the automation of phylogenetic analysis of large data sets feasible and, finally, facilitates the reproduction of the alignments and subsequent phylogenetic analysis by other researchers. Gblocks is very fast in processing alignments and it is therefore highly suitable for large-scale phylogenetic analyses.
License
Gblocks is freely available to all users. Please refer to The Gblocks Software Page for more details.
Benchmarks
N/A.
Additional Notes
To use Gblocks load the relevant environment module:
Further information can be obtained from The Gblocks Software Page.