Construction Phylogenetic Trees of ALDH2 Among Species

Dependencies

• clustalw2, the latest version of which can be downloaded here
  • Make sure this is on your system path for ease of use, especially on windows and linux.
• Python dependencies, which can be installed with pip install -r requirements.txt. See the pip documentation for more assistance.

Usage

• Retrieve Amino Acid sequences to use.
• Place the AA sequences, in FASTA format, in sequences_aa.fa
• Run python3 team2-final-project.py with the following optional flags at the end.
  • -h prints usage help text and quits
  • -n skips clustalw2 alignment and instead uses an existing sequences_aa.aln file