Stockholm format
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Stockholm format is a multiple sequence alignment format used by Pfam, Rfam and Dfam, to disseminate protein, RNA and DNA sequence alignments.[1][2][3] The alignment editors Ralee,[4] Belvu and Jalview support Stockholm format as do the probabilistic database search tools, Infernal and HMMER, and the phylogenetic analysis tool Xrate. Stockholm format files often have the filename extension .sto
or .stk
.[5]
Quick Facts Filename extensions, Internet media type ...
Filename extensions | .sto , .stk |
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Internet media type | text/x-stockholm-alignment |
Developed by | Erik Sonnhammers |
Type of format | Bioinformatics |
Open format? | yes |
Website | sonnhammer |
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