Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a cornerstone of computational biology, facilitating the exploration of functional, structural and evolutionary relationships among biological sequences.

Supported by the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins researchers have created LiftOn, a new software tool that can ...

Now, Robert C. Edgar, an independent researcher in Mill Valley, Calif., has an alternative: a sequencing algorithm that delivers both high accuracy and speed. Edgar calls his new algorithm MUSCLE ...

"Combined with classical algorithms, crowd computing techniques can be successfully used to help improving the accuracy of [multiple-sequence alignment]," McGill University researchers wrote in a ...

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. (2021, April 12). Speeding up sequence alignment across the tree of life. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 04 ...

Courtesy of European Bioinformatics Institute KNOWLEDGE GAPS? Sequence alignments offer clues to both the function and evolution of novel genes. But a bewildering array of algorithms and parameters ...

Over the last 10 years, breakthroughs in understanding the genetic instructions passed from parent to offspring have put ...

The GENESYS project applied Optalysys’s unique optical processing technology to perform large-scale DNA sequence alignment. "The collaboration with EI has been a great success,” said Dr. Nick New, ...