Multiple sequence alignments / Conservation

mafFilter
Function: Filter out maf files. Output goes to standard out
Usage: mafFilter file(s).maf
mafGene
Function: Output protein alignments using maf and genePred
Usage: mafGene dbName mafTable genePredTable species.lst output
mafSpeciesList
Function: Scan maf and output all species used in it.
Usage: mafSpeciesList in.maf out.lst
mafMeFirst
Function: Move component to top if it is one of the named ones.Useful in conjunction with mafFrags when you don't want the one withthe gene name to be in the middle.
Usage: mafMeFirst in.maf me.list out.maf
mafFrag
Function: Extract maf sequences for a region from database
Usage: mafFrag database mafTrack chrom start end strand out.maf