Jalview (www.jalview.org) is free-to-use sequence alignment and analysis visualisation software that links genomic variants, protein alignments and 3D structure.

Protein, RNA and DNA data can be directly accessed from public databases (e.g. Pfam, Rfam, PDB, UniProt and ENA etc.). Jalview has editing and annotation functionality within a fully integrated, multiple window interface. The sequence alignment programs Clustal Omega, Muscle, MAFFT, ProbCons, T-COFFEE, ClustalW, MSA Prob and GLProb can be run directly from within Jalview. Jalview integrates protein secondary structure prediction (JPred), generate trees, assesses consensus and conservation across sequence families. Journal quality figures can be generated from the results.

The Jalview Desktop will run on Mac, MS Windows, Linux and any other platform that supports Java.

It has been developed in Geoff Barton's group (www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk) in the School of Life Sciences (www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk) at the University of Dundee with funding from the BBSRC and the Wellcome Trust.