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SUBMITTER: Shen C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8796358 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shen Chengze C Zaharias Paul P Warnow Tandy T
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20220101 4
<h4>Summary</h4>Multiple sequence alignment is an initial step in many bioinformatics pipelines, including phylogeny estimation, protein structure prediction and taxonomic identification of reads produced in amplicon or metagenomic datasets, etc. Yet, alignment estimation is challenging on datasets that exhibit substantial sequence length heterogeneity, and especially when the datasets have fragmentary sequences as a result of including reads or contigs generated by next-generation sequencing te ...[more]