Abstract
Alignment (pairwise and multiple) is central in the comparison of biological sequences. Some of the purposes in aligning sequences are:
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Reconstructing molecular evolution.
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Matching of functionally equivalent regions.
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Matching of homologous nucleotides/amino acids.
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Definition of patterns the sequences must contain.
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Hein, J. (1998). Multiple Alignment. In: Karp, A., Isaac, P.G., Ingram, D.S. (eds) Molecular Tools for Screening Biodiversity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0019-6_61
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