<p>No Bioedit is an alignment editor only. It is not in anyway an analysis program.</p>

<p>Dump the format in fasta or mega (its the option is available) and import it into Mega X <a href="https://www.megasoftware.net/dload_mac_beta" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. You can quantify the diversity as a pairwise matrix, population analysis (if you have a clear a priori that you can subdivide your sequences into different groups) or phylogeny ... which provides diversity as mutations per alignment position. Its pointy and clicky and easy to use. </p>

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<p>I am using <code>BioEdit</code>. It can perform an align of multiple sequences. Can this sequence similarity be outputted as a value, e.g. 70%?</p>

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Can I use BioEdit to quantify the sequence similarity?
# Can I use BioEdit to quantify the sequence similarity?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-04-29)

I am using `BioEdit`. It can perform an align of multiple sequences. Can this sequence similarity be outputted as a value, e.g. 70%?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2020-04-29. Score: 1

No Bioedit is an alignment editor only. It is not in anyway an analysis program.

Dump the format in fasta or mega (its the option is available) and import it into Mega X [here](https://www.megasoftware.net/dload_mac_beta). You can quantify the diversity as a pairwise matrix, population analysis (if you have a clear a priori that you can subdivide your sequences into different groups) or phylogeny ... which provides diversity as mutations per alignment position. Its pointy and clicky and easy to use.


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