termal

termal is a terminal-based viewer for multiple sequence alignments, designed for fast, keyboard-driven navigation in local and remote (SSH/HPC) environments.

It requires no installer, has no runtime dependencies, and runs directly in a terminal.

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Installation

Prebuilt binaries

Download a prebuilt binary from the GitHub Releases page: https://github.com/sib-swiss/termal/releases

Unpack the archive and run the binary directly. The archive also contains a manual (termal-manual.md and termal-manual.pdf), as well as examples of custom colormaps and ordering files and assorted sample alignments.

termal data/example-1.msa
termal -f stockholm data/PF00244.26.sto
termal -o data/OX_OFA-pg2.order data/OX_OFA-pg2.msa
termal -c data/colormaps/gecos_default.json data/example-1.msa

macOS users may need to remove the quarantine flag:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ./termal

From source

cargo install termal-msa