A survey on the algorithm and development of multiple sequence alignment

Y Zhang, Q Zhang, J Zhou, Q Zou - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is an essential cornerstone in bioinformatics, which can
reveal the potential information in biological sequences, such as function, evolution and …

Developments in algorithms for sequence alignment: A review

J Chao, F Tang, L Xu - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The continuous development of sequencing technologies has enabled researchers to obtain
large amounts of biological sequence data, and this has resulted in increasing demands for …

WITCH: improved multiple sequence alignment through weighted consensus hidden Markov model alignment

C Shen, M Park, T Warnow - Journal of Computational Biology, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Accurate multiple sequence alignment is challenging on many data sets, including those
that are large, evolve under high rates of evolution, or have sequence length heterogeneity …

UPP2: fast and accurate alignment of datasets with fragmentary sequences

M Park, S Ivanovic, G Chu, C Shen, T Warnow - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a basic step in many bioinformatics
pipelines. However, achieving highly accurate alignments on large datasets, especially …

learnMSA: learning and aligning large protein families

F Becker, M Stanke - GigaScience, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background The alignment of large numbers of protein sequences is a challenging task and
its importance grows rapidly along with the size of biological datasets. State-of-the-art …

Seqrutinator: scrutiny of large protein superfamily sequence datasets for the identification and elimination of non-functional homologues

A Amalfitano, N Stocchi, HM Atencio, F Villarreal… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Seqrutinator is an objective, flexible pipeline that removes sequences with sequencing
and/or gene model errors and sequences from pseudogenes from complex, eukaryotic …

WITCH-NG: efficient and accurate alignment of datasets with sequence length heterogeneity

B Liu, T Warnow - Bioinformatics Advances, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Multiple sequence alignment is a basic part of many bioinformatics pipelines, including in
phylogeny estimation, prediction of structure for both RNAs and proteins, and metagenomic …

Recent progress on methods for estimating and updating large phylogenies

P Zaharias, T Warnow - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
With the increased availability of sequence data and even of fully sequenced and
assembled genomes, phylogeny estimation of very large trees (even of hundreds of …

UPP2: Fast and Accurate Alignment Estimation of Datasets with Fragmentary Sequences

M Park, S Ivanovic, G Chu, C Shen, T Warnow - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Motivation Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a basic step in many bioinformatics
pipelines. However, achieving highly accurate alignments on large datasets, especially …

[PDF][PDF] DiMA: sequence diversity dynamics analyser for viruses

S Tharanga, ES Ünlü, Y Hu, MF Sjaugi… - Briefings in …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Sequence diversity is one of the major challenges in the design of diagnostic, prophylactic,
and therapeutic interventions against viruses. DiMA is a novel tool that is big data-ready and …