Sequence Alignment in Bioinformatics - A Historical Perspective
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Sequence alignment in bioinformatics is a field of research focused on developing tools for comparing and finding similar sequences of amino acids or DNA base pairs with the aid of computers. The sequence similarity is used to assess gene and protein homology, classify genes and proteins, predict biological function, secondary and tertiary protein structure, detect point mutations, construct evolutionary trees, etc.
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