Table 1. Summary of availability of features in various JavaScript sequence alignment display tools as described in their respective papers and web sites.
Note that the MODAlign web site was unavailable at the time of writing so capabilities have been judged purely on what is published in the paper. † Not available for use in other web sites. ‡ Should be possible, but not designed to be used in this way. * Submission to Modeller only. § Automatically highlights mutated residues. ¶ Highlights columns of residues conserved at a specified level rather than displaying a consensus.
| JSAV | MOD-
align |
Alignment-
Editor |
SnipViz | Sequence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple, lightweight component | ✓ | † | ‡ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Flexible coloring schemes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Dotifying | ✓ | ||||
| Automatic sequence sorting | ✓ | ||||
| Manual sequence sorting | ✓ | ||||
| Remove sequences | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Highlight regions | ✓ | ✓ | § | ✓ | |
| FASTA export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Submission to another site | ✓ | * | |||
| Submission to JavaScript | ✓ | ||||
| Display consensus sequence | ✓ | ✓ | ¶ | ||
| Display secondary structure | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Alignment editing | ✓ | ||||
| Link to structure viewer | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Display phylogenetic tree | ✓ | ||||
| Optimized for very long sequences | ✓ |