Constrained Multiple Sequence Alignment Tool Development and Its Application to RNase Family Alignment

  • Authors:
  • Chuan Yi Tang;Chin Lung Lu;Margaret Dah-Tsyr Chang;Yin-Te Tsai;Yuh-Ju Sun;Kun-Mao Chao;Jia-Ming Chang;Yu-Han Chiou;Chia-Mao Wu;Hao-Teng Chang;Wei-I Chou

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CSB '02 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper, we design an algorithm of computing a constraine multiple sequence alignment (CMSA for short) for guaranteeing that the generated alignment satisfies the user-specified constraints that some particular residues should be aligned together. If the number of residuesneeded to be aligned together is a constant 驴, then the time-complexity of our CMSA algorithm for aligning K sequences is O (驴Kn4), where n is the maximum of the lengths of sequences. In addition, we have build up such a CMSA software system and made several experiments on the RNase sequences, which mainly function in catalyzing the degradation of RNA molecules. The resulting alignments illustrate the practicability of our method.