We report an update for the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program to enable parallel
calculation of large numbers of sequences. The G-INS-1 option of MAFFT was recently …

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is an essential cornerstone in bioinformatics, which can
reveal the potential information in biological sequences, such as function, evolution and …

Multiple sequence alignment approaches refer to algorithmic solutions for the alignment of
biological sequences. Since multiple sequence alignment has exponential time complexity …

Penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) are the targets of the β-lactams, the most successful class
of antibiotics ever developed against bacterial infections. Unfortunately, the worldwide and …

CRISPR/Cas systems provide adaptive defense mechanisms against invading nucleic acids
in prokaryotes. Because of its interest as a genetic tool, the Type II CRISPR/Cas9 system …

Feature selection is nowadays an extremely important data mining stage in the field of
machine learning due to the appearance of problems of high dimensionality. In the literature …

Alternative splicing (AS) has played a major role in defining the protein diversity, which
could be linked to phenotypic alternations. It is imperative to have a comparative resolution …

The crucial role of G-protein coupled receptors and the significant achievements associated
with a better understanding of the spatial structure of known receptors in this family …

Motivation One basic step in many bioinformatics analyses is the multiple sequence
alignment. One of the state-of-the-art tools to perform multiple sequence alignment is PASTA …

Motivation Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is important and challenging problem of
computational biology. Most of the existing methods can only provide a short length multiple …