Abstract:
:Multiple sequence alignments play a central role in the annotation of novel genomes. Given the biological and computational complexity of this task, the automatic generation of high-quality alignments remains challenging. Since multiple alignments are usually employed at the very start of data analysis pipelines, it is crucial to ensure high alignment quality. We describe a simple, yet elegant, solution to assess the biological accuracy of alignments automatically. Our approach is based on the comparison of several alignments of the same sequences. We introduce two functions to compare alignments: the average overlap score and the multiple overlap score. The former identifies difficult alignment cases by expressing the similarity among several alignments, while the latter estimates the biological correctness of individual alignments. We implemented both functions in the MUMSA program and demonstrate the overall robustness and accuracy of both functions on three large benchmark sets.
journal_name
Nucleic Acids Resjournal_title
Nucleic acids researchauthors
Lassmann T,Sonnhammer ELdoi
10.1093/nar/gki1020keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2005-12-16 00:00:00pages
7120-8issue
22eissn
0305-1048issn
1362-4962pii
33/22/7120journal_volume
33pub_type
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