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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The recent epidemic of Zika virus infections in South and Latin America has raised serious concerns on its ramifications for the population in the Americas and spread of the virus worldwide. The ...