Ajawatanawong, P.Atkinson, G.Watson-Haigh, N.MacKenzie, B.Baldauf, S.2014-10-232014-10-232012Nucleic Acids Research, 2012; 40(W1):W340-W3470305-10481362-4962http://hdl.handle.net/2440/86550First published online: June 11, 2012. This article appears in: Web Server issueAnalyses of multiple sequence alignments generally focus on well-defined conserved sequence blocks, while the rest of the alignment is largely ignored or discarded. This is especially true in phylogenomics, where large multigene datasets are produced through automated pipelines. However, some of the most powerful phylogenetic markers have been found in the variable length regions of multiple alignments, particularly insertions/deletions (indels) in protein sequences. We have developed Sequence Feature and Indel Region Extractor (SeqFIRE) to enable the automated identification and extraction of indels from protein sequence alignments. The program can also extract conserved blocks and identify fast evolving sites using a combination of conservation and entropy. All major variables can be adjusted by the user, allowing them to identify the sets of variables most suited to a particular analysis or dataset. Thus, all major tasks in preparing an alignment for further analysis are combined in a single flexible and user-friendly program. The output includes a numbered list of indels, alignments in NEXUS format with indels annotated or removed and indel-only matrices. SeqFIRE is a user-friendly web application, freely available online at www.seqfire.org/.en© The Author(s) 2012. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.ProteinsSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, ProteinAlgorithmsInternetSoftwareINDEL MutationJournal article002012826310.1093/nar/gks5610003066709000562-s2.0-8486444680719562Watson-Haigh, N. [0000-0002-7935-6151]