.\"     Title: SEAVIEW
.\"    Author: Manolo Gouy <mgouy@biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr>
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.\"      Date: 05/27/2009
.\"    Manual: Seaview Manual
.\"    Source: seaview 4.0
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.SH "NAME"
seaview \- a multiplatform, graphical user interface for multiple sequence alignment and molecular phylogeny.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP 8
\fBseaview\fR [\fIfilename\fR]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBseaview\fR
is the program that starts the SeaView GUI\&.
.PP
SeaView is a graphical interface for multiple sequence alignment and molecular phylogeny\&. It is able to read various alignment formats (MSF, CLUSTAL, FASTA, PHYLIP, MASE, NEXUS) and the Newick tree format, and allows one to manually edit the alignment, to run DOT\-PLOT, CLUSTAL or MUSCLE programs to locally improve the alignment, and also to compute, draw and edit phylogenetic trees\&.
.PP
If started from the command line with
\fIfilename\fR
as an argument, seaview will open the alignment or tree stored in
\fIfilename\fR\& and display/draw it on screen. Filename can be in any of the mase, clustal, phylip, msf, fasta, or nexus alignment
formats or in the Newick tree format.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\fB\-fast\fR
.RS 4
Suppresses double buffering for display\&. This should only accelerate display on very slow systems\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-fontsize\fR \fIn\fR
.RS 4
Sets the font size to
\fIn\fR\&.
.RE
.SH "FILES"
.PP
\fI\fI$HOME\fR\fR\fI/\&.seaviewrc\fR
holds the user\'s configuration for SeaView\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
The program is fully documented online\&. Press the "help" button in the main window\&. On Debian systems, the text template for SeaView\'s help can be found in
\fI/usr/share/doc/seaview/seaview\&.html\fR\&.
.PP
Two multiple alignment programs can be called from whithin SeaView:
\fBmuscle\fR(1)
and
\fBclustalw\fR(1)\&.
.PP
The home page of SeaView is http://pbil\&.univ\-lyon1\&.fr/software/seaview\&.html\&.
.PP
SeaView usees some components of the PHYLIP package, see \(oqhttp://evolution\&.genetics\&.washington\&.edu/phylip\&.html\(cq\&.
.SH "REFERENCE"
.PP
If you use SeaView in a published work, please cite the following reference: Galtier, N\&., Gouy, M\&. and Gautier, C\&. (1996) SeaView and Phylo_win, two graphic tools for sequence alignment and molecular phylogeny\&. Comput\&. Applic\&. Biosci\&., 12, 543\-548\&.
.SH "AUTHORS"
.PP
\fBManolo Gouy\fR <\&mgouy@biomserv\&.univ\-lyon1\&.fr\&>
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.IP "" 4
Upstream author of SeaView\&.
.PP
\fBStéphane Bortzmeyer\fR <\&bortzmeyer@debian\&.org\&>
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.IP "" 4
Wrote this manpage in DocBook XML for the Debian distribution\&.
.PP
\fBCharles Plessy\fR <\&plessy@debian\&.org\&>
.sp -1n
.IP "" 4
Updated this manpage in DocBook XML for the Debian distribution\&.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright \(co 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Manolo Gouy
.br
Copyright \(co 1999 Stéphane Bortzmeyer
.br
Copyright \(co 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Charles Plessy
.br
.PP
SeaView
is released under the GNU General Public Licence, with a special permission to use some source files from the PHYLIP package\&. Because these files are used, you are not allowed generate revenue with SeaView\&.
.PP
You can redistribute and/or modify this manpage under same terms as SeaView itself\&.
.PP
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in
\fI/usr/share/common\-licenses/GPL\-2\fR\&.
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