MUSCLE¶
MUSCLE is one of the best-performing multiple alignment programs according to published benchmark tests, with accuracy and speed that are consistently better than CLUSTALW. MUSCLE can align hundreds of sequences in seconds. Most users learn everything they need to know about MUSCLE in a few minutes-only a handful of command-line options are needed to perform common alignment tasks.
https://drive5.com/muscle/
Available modules¶
The overview below shows which MUSCLE installations are available per target architecture in EESSI, ordered based on software version (new to old).
To start using MUSCLE, load one of these modules using a module load command like:
(This data was automatically generated on Fri, 06 Feb 2026 at 13:12:13 UTC)
| aarch64/generic | aarch64/a64fx | aarch64/neoverse_n1 | aarch64/neoverse_v1 | aarch64/nvidia/grace | x86_64/generic | x86_64/amd/zen2 | x86_64/amd/zen3 | x86_64/amd/zen4 | x86_64/intel/cascadelake | x86_64/intel/haswell | x86_64/intel/icelake | x86_64/intel/sapphirerapids | x86_64/intel/skylake_avx512 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCLE/5.1.0-GCCcore-12.3.0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |