How to Align Nucleic Acid or Protein Sequences

This text introduces how one can generate sequence alignments of multiple protein or nucleic acid sequences using Clustal Omega. An alignment of the human proteins H-RAS, N-RAS, and K-RAS is used as the specific example throughout, but the same general principles hold true for all DNA, RNA, and protein alignments.

Topics

  • sequence
  • alignment
  • conserved
  • conservative
  • semi-conservative
  • non-conservative
  • DNA
  • RNA
  • protein
  • nucleotide
  • amino acid
  • mutation
  • substitution
  • BLOSUM
  • Clustal
  • Omega