Amino acid colour schemes

Clustal

The Clustal default colour scheme is:

	G, P, S, T	Orange
	H, K, R	Red
	F, W, Y	Blue
	I, L, M, V	Green

Lesk

The colour scheme in Lesk, Introduction to Bioinformatics, uses 5 groups (note Histidine):

Small nonpolar	G, A, S, T	Orange
Hydrophobic	C, V, I, L, P, F, Y, M, W	Green
Polar	N, Q, H	Magenta
Negatively charged	D, E	Red
Positively charged	K, R	Blue

MAEditor

The colour scheme used by Multiple Alignment Editor:

	A, G	Light green
	C	Green
	D, E, N, Q	Dark green
	I, L, M, V	Blue
	F, W, Y	Lilac
	H	Dark blue
	K, R	Orange
	P	Pink
	S, T	Red

CINEMA

Polar positive	H, K, R	Blue
Polar negative	D, E	Red
Polar neutral	S, T, N, Q	Green
Non-polar aliphatic	A, V, L, I, M	White
Non-polar aromatic	F, W, Y	Magenta
	P, G	Brown
	C	Yellow
Special characters	B, Z, X, -	Grey

SHAPELY

See this site, Shapely table, for amino acid colours in Shapely scheme.