[Bioperl-l] Generating a consensus sequence from a Clustal alignment

[Chris Fields]

Bill,

Actually, the page you reached at Pasteur is not Pise, but Mobyle (their replacement for the older Pise tools).  The Pise modules were in BioPerl-Run, but they were deprecated a few years ago and removed from the latest BioPerl-Run releases b/c the remote service is no longer active; there is no Perl-based replacement for Mobyle interaction.  

Have you thought about just using the functionality within the Bio::SimpleAlign class to generate the consensus?  I'm pretty sure there are methods in place to do that.

chris

On Oct 18, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Bill Stephens wrote:

> All,
> 
> I'm in my first week with bioperl for a class project (although I've used
> Perl for years). I've successfully run a clustal alignment of several DNA
> sequences to produce the aln and dnd files. Now I would like to generate a
> consensus sequence from the alignment.  I see that Pise Cons does this
> satisfactorily on my example data (
> http://mobyle.pasteur.fr/cgi-bin/portal.py?form=consensus) . However, I'm
> not finding Bio::Tools::Run::PiseApplication::cons in the 1.6.1 distribution
> that I installed.
> 
> Is this another module that I need to install separately?
> 
> "cpan[2]> m /Pise/
> Module    Bio::Tools::Run::AnalysisFactory::Pise
> (BIRNEY/bioperl-run-1.4.tar.gz)
> Module    Bio::Tools::Run::PiseApplication (BIRNEY/bioperl-run-1.4.tar.gz)"
> 
> Bill S.
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