In order that the output from STAMP may be displayed in a more
attractive manner, a program was developed to translate the
vertical, block-file format of STAMP multiple alignments into input
for GJB's program ALSCRIPT, which can then be used to display the
alignments in Postscript. Details of DSTAMP and how to obtain
ALSCRIPT are given CHAPTER VI. Contact Geoff Barton for a copy of
ALSCRIPT (worth having, even for other sequence alignments).
The program deterimes reliable regions given a set of criteria, and
highlights sequence and secondary structure accordingly.
Another program (VER2HOR) can display STAMP alignments in a horizontal text
format for quick viewing (i.e. it takes the vertical format of STAMP output, and
changes it to an easy to see horizontal format).
This is particularly useful if you don't have ALSCRIPT.
STAMP multiple alignments are always associated with particular
superimpositions. It is often useful to show such superimpositions
graphically. GSTAMP provides input for Per
Kraulis' program MOLSCRIPT. Most structual biology labs have at
least one copy of this program, and it is available from Per
Kraulis. One simple needs to run TRANSFORM (see below) on a STAMP
alignment file, and then run GSTAMP on the same file, followed by
separate runs of MOLSCRIPT, to produce separate Postscript files
for each aligned structure, with structually equivalent regions
shown as ribbons, the rest as
trace.