Interactive software tool to comprehend the calculation of optimal sequence alignments with dynamic programming

Interactive software tool to comprehend the calculation of optimal sequence alignments with dynamic programming

SUMMARY Dynamic programming (DP) is a general optimization strategy that is successfully used across various disciplines of science. In bioinformatics, it is widely applied in calculating the optimal alignment between pairs of protein or DNA sequences. These alignments form the basis of new, verifiable biological hypothesis. Despite its importance, there are no interactive tools available for t...

Sequence analysis MSAViewer: interactive JavaScript visualization of multiple sequence alignments

Summary: The MSAViewer is a quick and easy visualization and analysis JavaScript component for Multiple Sequence Alignment data of any size. Core features include interactive navigation through the alignment, application of popular color schemes, sorting, selecting and filtering. The MSAViewer is ‘web ready’: written entirely in JavaScript, compatible with modern web browsers and does not requi...

Visualization of near-optimal sequence alignments

MOTIVATION Mathematically optimal alignments do not always properly align active site residues or well-recognized structural elements. Most near-optimal sequence alignment algorithms display alternative alignment paths, rather than the conventional residue-by-residue pairwise alignment. Typically, these methods do not provide mechanisms for finding effectively the most biologically meaningful a...

Optimal Alignment of Multiple Sequence Alignments

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ALSCRIPT: a tool to format multiple sequence alignments.