Hi,

I've a little question about consensus sequences. So I've a bunch of small overlapping sequences from different groups and I want to regroup sequences from the same group together and compute the consensus sequences. The thing is that I don't know from which group sequences are coming

A little example is better to understand (here there are thre groups - line 1-4 : g1 ; line 5-8 : g2 ; line 9-12 : g3):

AAATTTGGGCCC
AAATTTGGG
AAATTTG
   TTTGGGCCCAAA
ATGCATGCAT
ATGCATGC
  GCATGCATGC
 TGCATGCAT
ACGTACGTACGT
ACGTACGTA
  GTACGTACGTAC

And the expected output would be :

Group1 : AAATTTGGGCCCAAA

Group2 : ATGCATGCATGC

Group3 : ACGTACGTACGTAC

The problem is to cluster the sequences together to form the groups. After the consenus sequence is pretty simple to do.

Anyone has an idea ?

Thanks

N.