Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) lies at the heart of comparative genomics, structural biology and evolutionary inference. By arranging three or more nucleotide or amino acid sequences in a matrix, ...
Historical introduction and overview -- Collecting and storing sequences in the laboratory -- Alignment of pairs of sequences -- Introduction to probability and statistical analysis of sequence ...
Open-access databases such as the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) contain more than 2.4 million bacterial genomes, and this number continues to grow rapidly. Until now, searching these vast ...