Making automated multiple alignments of very large numbers of protein sequences
Author(s) -
Fabian Sievers,
David Dineen,
Andreas Wilm,
Desmond G. Higgins
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt093
Subject(s) - multiple sequence alignment , computer science , benchmark (surveying) , sequence alignment , scalability , software , alignment free sequence analysis , data mining , sequence (biology) , complement (music) , structural alignment , selection (genetic algorithm) , algorithm , artificial intelligence , biology , peptide sequence , database , genetics , phenotype , geodesy , complementation , gene , programming language , geography
Recent developments in sequence alignment software have made possible multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) of >100 000 sequences in reasonable times. At present, there are no systematic analyses concerning the scalability of the alignment quality as the number of aligned sequences is increased.
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