COBALT alignment tool: how can I set my own constraint ?

I would like to use COBALT on command line to align multiple protein sequences by setting an aa motif as constraint. I would like to give my own motif. How to do that?

Thank you.

Alessandra

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updated 11.1 years ago by Ram

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