AL2CO ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11524371 ) may be what you need.
It takes the multiple alignment (made by user, so it isn't a black box)
that must contain the sequence of your structure, and maps the positional
conservation in the B-factor column of the structure. To see whether this
is what you want, try:
http://rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/10/11/1698/F1.expansion.html
Although the image was created by Bobscript, this also works fine with Pymol.
Hope this helps,
Mensur
At 02:25 PM 1/29/2009, Anastassis Perrakis wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I was wondering what is the state of the art for this old dark art ...
>are there any good servers / programs that allow to easily upload your
>own sequence alignments or create a 'transparent' alignment (I want to
>see the alignment first and not a total black box) and then allow you
>to write out sequence conservation based either on identity or in e.g
>a Dayhoff matrix on the B factor column for displaying it later in eg
>Pymol?
>
>To be clear I do not want a structural alignment, but mapping sequence
>alignment of eg a family to a single structure of a family member.
>
>Thanks in advance, Tassos
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