clustal alignment

[marco12345]

Hi all,

I have to plan a little my work, and I have a question I am not finding answer.
How long could a clustal run be?

That would be using clustalw-2.1, and doing a multiple alignment on 10 fasta sequences of about 150 kb. The type of alignment is "slow/accurate", the ouput a PHYLIP file, and all the options are on default values.
I'm thinking on running it on a MacBook 3.1 with 4 Gb of RAM.

What do you think? Would that be too much for a laptop?

Thanks in advance.

Marco

[chuanchao]

why not use mega?

[rhinoceros]

No, but I'd use muscle instead of clustal..

[jimmybee]

From my experience with mitochondrial and chloroplast alignments, Id say less than a week. You could try Clustal-omeg. Im pretty sure its multi-threaded

Your laptop should handle it