TY  - JOUR
AB  - An improved algorithm for the simultaneous alignment of multiple protein and nucleic acid sequences, the Divide-and-Conquer Alignment procedure (DCA), is presented. The basic method described in Tonges,et al. (1996) (Tonges, U., Perrey, S.W., Stoye, J., Dress, A.W.M., 1996. A general method for fast multiple sequence alignment. Gene, 172, GC33-GC41) is generalized to align any number of sequences to work arbitrary (e.g. affine linear) gap penalty functions. Also, the practical efficiency of the method is improved so that families of more than 10 sequences can now be aligned simultaneously within a few seconds or minutes. After a brief description of the general method, we assess the time and memory requirements of our implementation of DCA. We present several examples showing that the program is able to deal with real-world alignment problems.
DA  - 1998
DO  - 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00097-3
LA  - eng
IS  - 2
M2  - GC45
PY  - 1998
SN  - 0378-1119
SP  - GC45-GC56
T2  - Gene
TI  - Multiple sequence alignment with the Divide-and-Conquer method.
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-16677719
Y2  - 2024-11-22T06:36:21
ER  -