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@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ similarities between the two sequences. Blocks of similarity between
the two sequences are colored according to the degree of identity
between segments.
+A suitable alignment tool for protein sequences is SIM at ExPASy:
+https://web.expasy.org/sim/
+
+SIM finds a user-defined number of best non-intersecting alignments
+between two protein sequences or within a sequence. Once the alignment
+is computed, you can view it using LalnView.
+
For details and citation:
Duret, L., Gasteiger, E. and Perriere, G. (1996) LalnView: a
graphical viewer for pairwise sequence alignments. Comput. Applic.