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Trimal

A tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses. Development version: 2.0

From inab·Updated June 18, 2026·View on GitHub·

1. 'cd' to the directory containing the package's source code ('source'). The project is written primarily in C++, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2009. Key topics include: bioinformatics-tool, multiple-sequence-alignment, trimming.

Latest release: v1.5.1Stable release of trimAl v1.5.1
November 25, 2025View Changelog →

install with bioconda
European Galaxy server

Basic Installation

The simplest way to compile this package is:

  1. 'cd' to the directory containing the package's source code ('source').

  2. Type 'make' to compile the package.

  3. Optionally, run trimAl/readAl with the examples into the 'dataset'
    directory to check the correct installation.

By default, 'make' compiles the source code of trimAl and readAl in the
current directory. After that, you can either add to PATH the current
directory or move these files to '/usr/local/bin' or to '/usr/bin' using
root privileges.

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