Mothur Overview
Mothur is a comprehensive suite of tools for microbial ecology community. It is initiated by Dr. Patrick Schloss and his software development team in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at The University of Michigan. For more information, see Mothur-Wiki.
Command Documentation
The align.check command allows you to calculate the number of potentially misaligned bases in a 16S rRNA gene sequence alignment using a secondary_structure_map. If you are familiar with the editor window in ARB, this is the same as counting the number of ~, #, -, and = signs.