Upcoming tools retirements in 2015

To ensure the tools we offer at EMBL-EBI are up to date and well maintained, we periodically review and retire certain services. We will be retiring the following tools in August 2015; several of these have alternatives detailed below.

Tools being retired in August 2015:

• ClustalW2 - We recommend users of ClustalW2 try Clustal Omega for protein alignments, and MAFFT or MUSCLE for DNA alignments.
• WU-BLAST - We recommend that WU-BLAST users migrate to our NCBI BLAST service.
• DbClustal - Non-anchored alignments can now be carried out from the result page of any sequence similarity search.
• MaxSprout
• DaliLite
• Readseq - We recommend Readseq users use the EMBOSS Seqret tool.
• CENSOR

The full range of current Multiple Sequence Alignment tools can be found at www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/. 

Support

If you have any concerns or would like to contact us for any reason, including for further advice on replacement tools, please do so via the support form at www.ebi.ac.uk/support/.