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  2. Distance matrices in phylogeny - Wikipedia

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    Distance is often defined as the fraction of mismatches at aligned positions, with gaps either ignored or counted as mismatches. [1] Distance-matrix methods are frequently used as the basis for progressive and iterative types of multiple sequence alignment. The main disadvantage of distance-matrix methods is their inability to efficiently use ...

  3. Comparative genomics - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, MAVID stands out as another noteworthy pairwise alignment program specifically designed for aligning multiple genomes. Pairwise Comparison: The Pairwise comparison of genomic sequence data is widely utilized in comparative gene prediction. Many studies in comparative functional genomics lean on pairwise comparisons, wherein traits ...

  4. Sequence alignment - Wikipedia

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    Multiple sequence alignment is an extension of pairwise alignment to incorporate more than two sequences at a time. Multiple alignment methods try to align all of the sequences in a given query set. Multiple alignments are often used in identifying conserved sequence regions across a group of sequences hypothesized to be evolutionarily related.

  5. Distance matrix - Wikipedia

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    Distance matrix. In mathematics, computer science and especially graph theory, a distance matrix is a square matrix (two-dimensional array) containing the distances, taken pairwise, between the elements of a set. [1] Depending upon the application involved, the distance being used to define this matrix may or may not be a metric. If there are N ...

  6. Pairwise Algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The PairWise algorithm is a variant of the Smith–Waterman algorithm best local alignment algorithm. These algorithms all belong to the class known as minimal string edit algorithms. The main differences between PairWise and other alignment algorithm is that, besides normal penalties such as Gap Opening Penalty (GOP), Gap Extension Penalty ...

  7. Tree alignment - Wikipedia

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    In computational phylogenetics, tree alignment is a computational problem concerned with producing multiple sequence alignments, or alignments of three or more sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein. Sequences are arranged into a phylogenetic tree, modeling the evolutionary relationships between species or taxa. The edit distances between sequences ...

  8. Computational phylogenetics - Wikipedia

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    Computational phylogenetics. Computational phylogenetics, phylogeny inference, or phylogenetic inference focuses on computational and optimization algorithms, heuristics, and approaches involved in phylogenetic analyses. The goal is to find a phylogenetic tree representing optimal evolutionary ancestry between a set of genes, species, or taxa.

  9. Needleman–Wunsch algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Needleman–Wunsch algorithm. The Needleman–Wunsch algorithm is an algorithm used in bioinformatics to align protein or nucleotide sequences. It was one of the first applications of dynamic programming to compare biological sequences. The algorithm was developed by Saul B. Needleman and Christian D. Wunsch and published in 1970. [ 1 ]