CLUSTAL W and CLUSTAL X Multiple Sequence Alignment Programs
                (version 2.0.12, 24th Sept 2009)

Contact email address: clustalw@ucd.ie

For details and citation purposes see paper "Clustal W and Clustal X
version 2.0", Larkin M., et al. Bioinformatics 2007 23(21):2947-2948
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/23/21/2947


Clustal X provides a window-based user interface to the ClustalW
multiple alignment program.



Directory contents
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* clustalw-2.0.12-linux-i686-libcppstatic.tar.gz
Compressed tar file with the linux binary for ClustalW

* clustalw-2.0.12-macosx.dmg
Mac OS X disk image for ClustalW

* clustalw-2.0.12.tar.gz
Compressed tar file with the source-code for ClustalW

* clustalw-2.0.12-win.msi
Windows installer for ClustalW


* clustalx-2.0.12-linux-i686-libcppstatic.tar.gz
Compressed tar file with the linux binary for ClustalX

* clustalx-2.0.12-macosx.dmg
Mac OS X disk image for ClustalX

* clustalx-2.0.12.tar.gz
Compressed tar file with the source-code for ClustalX

* clustalx-2.0.12-win.msi
Windows installer for ClustalX



Supported systems
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Windows XP
Mac OSX 10.3.9 or higher
Linux

Solaris users with GCC 3.4:
please apply clustalw-2.0.9_solaris_gcc3.4.patch before
compiling ClustalW. The patch can be downloaded here:
http://www.clustal.org/download/2.0.9/clustalw-2.0.9_solaris_gcc3.4.patch


Bug Tracking
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We track bugs in Clustal in a publicly viewable bugzilla instance. You
can find it at:
http://bioinf.ucd.ie/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=clustal
If users find a bug or have issues running Clustal2 they should
contact the development team at clustalw@ucd.ie



Acknowledgements
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Science Foundation Ireland who provided the funding which enabled the
development of Clustal2