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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.

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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:

module load MUSCLE/5.1.0-GCCcore-12.3.0

(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