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- Title
AQUA: automated quality improvement for multiple sequence alignments.
- Authors
Muller, Jean; Creevey, Christopher J; Thompson, Julie D; Arendt, Detlev; Bork, Peer
- Abstract
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a central tool in most modern biology studies. However, despite generations of valuable tools, human experts are still able to improve automatically generated MSAs. In an effort to automatically identify the most reliable MSA for a given protein family, we propose a very simple protocol, named AQUA for 'Automated quality improvement for multiple sequence alignments'. Our current implementation relies on two alignment programs (MUSCLE and MAFFT), one refinement program (RASCAL) and one assessment program (NORMD), but other programs could be incorporated at any of the three steps.
- Publication
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2010, Vol 26, Issue 2, p263
- ISSN
1367-4811
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btp651