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Abstract
A program is described for simultaneously aligning two or more molecular sequences which is based on first finding common segments above a specified length and then piecing these together to maximize an alignment scoring function. Optimal as well as near-optimal alignments are found, and there is also provided a means for randomizing the given sequences for testing the statistical significance of an alignment. Alignments may be made in the original alphabets of the sequences or in user-specified alternate ones to take advantage of chemical similarities (such as hydrophobic-hydrophilic).Mesh:
Year: 1986 PMID: 3753772 PMCID: PMC339419 DOI: 10.1093/nar/14.1.363
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucleic Acids Res ISSN: 0305-1048 Impact factor: 16.971