GUIDANCE: a web server for assessing alignment confidence scores

O Penn, E Privman, H Ashkenazy… - Nucleic acids …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Evaluating the accuracy of multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is critical for virtually every
comparative sequence analysis that uses an MSA as input. Here we present the GUIDANCE …

Kalign, Kalignvu and Mumsa: web servers for multiple sequence alignment

T Lassmann, ELL Sonnhammer - Nucleic acids research, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Obtaining high quality multiple alignments is crucial for a range of sequence analysis tasks.
A common strategy is to align the sequences several times, varying the program or …

GUIDANCE2: accurate detection of unreliable alignment regions accounting for the uncertainty of multiple parameters

I Sela, H Ashkenazy, K Katoh, T Pupko - Nucleic acids research, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Inference of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) is a critical part of phylogenetic and
comparative genomics studies. However, from the same set of sequences different MSAs …

Heads or tails: a simple reliability check for multiple sequence alignments

G Landan, D Graur - Molecular biology and evolution, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The question of multiple sequence alignment quality has received much attention from
developers of alignment methods. Less forthcoming, however, are practical measures for …

The M-Coffee web server: a meta-method for computing multiple sequence alignments by combining alternative alignment methods

S Moretti, F Armougom, IM Wallace… - Nucleic acids …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The M-Coffee server is a web server that makes it possible to compute multiple sequence
alignments (MSAs) by running several MSA methods and combining their output into one …

Tcoffee@ igs: a web server for computing, evaluating and combining multiple sequence alignments

O Poirot, E O'Toole, C Notredame - Nucleic acids research, 2003 - academic.oup.com
This paper presents Tcoffee@ igs, a new server provided to the community by Hewlet
Packard computers and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. This server is a …

The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools

JD Thompson, TJ Gibson, F Plewniak… - Nucleic acids …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
CLUSTAL X is a new windows interface for the widely-used progressive multiple sequence
alignment program CLUSTAL W. The new system is easy to use, providing an integrated …

[PDF][PDF] A simple genetic algorithm for multiple sequence alignment

C Gondro, BP Kinghorn - Genetics and Molecular Research, 2007 - funpecrp.com.br
Multiple sequence alignment plays an important role in molecular sequence analysis. An
alignment is the arrangement of two (pairwise alignment) or more (multiple alignment) …

Assessing the efficiency of multiple sequence alignment programs

FSM Pais, PC Ruy, G Oliveira, RS Coimbra - Algorithms for molecular …, 2014 - Springer
Background Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is an extremely useful tool for molecular
and evolutionary biology and there are several programs and algorithms available for this …

An alignment confidence score capturing robustness to guide tree uncertainty

O Penn, E Privman, G Landan, D Graur… - Molecular biology and …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is the basis for a wide range of comparative sequence
analyses from molecular phylogenetics to 3D structure prediction. Sophisticated algorithms …