Title
Improvement of alignment accuracy utilizing sequentially conserved motifs.
Abstract
Multiple sequence alignment algorithms are very important tools in molecular biology today. Accurate alignment of proteins is central to several areas such as homology modelling, docking studies, understanding evolutionary trends and study of structure-function relationships. In recent times, improvement of existing progressing programs and implementation of new iterative algorithms have made a significant change in this field.We report an alignment algorithm that combines progressive dynamic algorithm, local substructure alignment and iterative refinement to achieve an improved, user-interactive tool. Large-scale benchmarking studies show that this FMALIGN server produces alignments that, aside from preservation of functional and structural conservation, have accuracy comparable to other popular multiple alignment programs.The FMALIGN server allows the user to fix conserved regions in equivalent position in the alignment thereby reducing the chance of global misalignment to a great extent. FMALIGN is available at http://caps.ncbs.res.in/FMALIGN/Home.html.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1186/1471-2105-5-167
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
iterative algorithm,globins,multiple sequence alignment,sequence alignment,molecular biology,conserved sequence,multiple alignment,algorithms,benchmarking,genetic variation,software design,amino acid sequence,bioinformatics,microarrays
Iterative refinement,Sequence alignment,Data mining,Software design,Alignment-free sequence analysis,Biology,Software,Bioinformatics,Multiple sequence alignment,Dynamic problem,Benchmarking
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.59
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Saikat Chakrabarti118821.86
Nitin Bhardwaj213410.05
A Prem Anand3171.19
Ramanathan Sowdhamini421521.20