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remove gapped bases in MSA

I have a multiple sequence alignment represented as a "mulit-fasta." I want to remove any column that contains a gap.

Thought I would ask before writing my own.

msa alignment

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Trimal is very versatile. Try with "-gt 0.0" http://trimal.cgenomics.org

very helpful! Thanks!

trimal -in test -out test_nogaps_trimal -nogaps

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