[Bioperl-l] Re: Comparative genomics

[Elia Stupka]

> The key first step is definitely obtaining accurate automated alignments.
> Without this no amount of tree inference will be sound. It would be a real
> plus not only to be able to use these for the trees but to be able to see
> the alignment with the tree object.

That will be taken care of by ensembl-compara the new db that Ewan and I
are developing. He finished the db, and I now need to finish a way of
populating it ;)

The compara could hold aligments between sequences as well as alignments
to HMMs.

Elia

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