Protein sequence alignment analysis by local covariation: coevolution statistics detect benchmark alignment errors.

The use of sequence alignments to understand protein families is ubiquitous in molecular biology. High quality alignments are difficult to build and protein alignment remains one of the largest open problems in computational biology. Misalignments can lead to inferential errors about protein structu...

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Main Authors: Russell J Dickson, Gregory B Gloor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3371027?pdf=render