Tailor-made multiple sequence alignments using the PRALINE 2 alignment toolkit

Optimal Alignment of Multiple Sequence Alignments

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1.1 Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1.2 Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.3 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

PRALINE: a multiple sequence alignment toolbox that integrates homology-extended and secondary structure information

PRofile ALIgNEment (PRALINE) is a fully customizable multiple sequence alignment application. In addition to a number of available alignment strategies, PRALINE can integrate information from database homology searches to generate a homology-extended multiple alignment. PRALINE also provides a choice of seven different secondary structure prediction programs that can be used individually or in ...

Multiple alignment by aligning alignments

MOTIVATION Multiple sequence alignment is a fundamental task in bioinformatics. Current tools typically form an initial alignment by merging subalignments, and then polish this alignment by repeated splitting and merging of subalignments to obtain an improved final alignment. In general this form-and-polish strategy consists of several stages, and a profusion of methods have been tried at every...

Assessing Multiple Sequence Alignments Using Visual Tools

Multiple Sequence Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment

An algorithm for progressive multiple alignment of sequences with insertions " , 1. Introduction The problem of sequence alignment is to find the patterns of sequence conservation and similarity between pairs or sets of given sequences. In biological contexts, similarity between biological sequences usually amounts to either functional or structural similarities or divergence from a common ance...