The distribution of optimal local alignment scores of random sequences plays an important role in evaluating the statistical significance of…
Sequence alignment is typical in any analyses of evolutionary relationships, in extracting functional and even tertiary structure information from a protein amino…
A multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a sequence alignment of three or more biological sequences, generally protein, DNA, or RNA. In many cases, the input set of query…
Pairwise Sequence Alignment is used to identify regions of similarity that may infer functional, structural or evolutionary relationships between two biological…
Sequence Identity The tendency to use the terms homology, similarity, and identity interchangeably persists in comparative biology. When translated to…
Sequence Alignment In bioinformatics, a sequence alignment is a way of arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify regions of similarity that…