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Homology Search and Multiple Alignment

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How to discover evolutionary homology of nucleotide and amino acid sequences and how to analyze these homologous sequences are discussed, including homology search, pairwise alignment, multiple alignment, and genome-wide sequence viewing.

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Saitou, N. (2018). Homology Search and Multiple Alignment. In: Introduction to Evolutionary Genomics. Computational Biology, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92642-1_15

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