Dear Vicky, did you possibly edit this file with Word or some other text formatting program? A file .aln is a pure text file. What you sent is a binary file, hence not interpretable as alignement file.
There are proper text editors even for windows. Notepad is one option. Best, Tim On Sunday, September 3, 2017 6:05:21 PM CEST Vicky Tsirkone wrote: > Dear, > > You may find attached the corresponding file. > It does not contain the real sequences (I replaced every aa with ALA) but > overall this is how it looks like. > > Best, > > Vicky > > On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Eleanor Dodson <eleanor.dod...@york.ac.uk> > > wrote: > > Can you attach the alignment file - there is a plethora of formats and it > > is hard to debug them all. > > > > Eleanor > > > > On 3 September 2017 at 15:18, Vicky Tsirkone <vtsirk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I faced a strange issue while I was trying to run CCP4-chainsaw. I used > >> EBI-Clustal omega to prepare the desired alignement. Next, I copied the > >> output into a text file and renamed it to alignment.aln. When I chose > >> this > >> file in chainsaw it gave me back this kind of error: > >> > >> format error in ALN/Clustal file > >> No CLUSTAL keyword > >> > >> > >> This is the first line of my file : *CLUSTAL O(1.2.4) multiple sequence > >> alignment* > >> > >> I also typed CLUSTAL W instead of CLUSTAL O but ccp4 gave me the same > >> error message. > >> > >> Any suggestion will be appreciated. > >> > >> Kindly, > >> > >> Vicky -- -- Paul Scherrer Institut Tim Gruene - persoenlich - OFLC/104 CH-5232 Villigen PSI phone: +41 (0)56 310 5297 GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A
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