ProbPFP: a multiple sequence alignment algorithm combining hidden Markov model optimized by particle swarm optimization with partition function

Abstract Background During procedures for conducting multiple sequence alignment, that is so essential to use the substitution score of pairwise alignment. To compute adaptive scores for alignment, researchers usually use Hidden Markov Model or probabilistic consistency methods such as partition fun...

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Main Authors: Qing Zhan, Nan Wang, Shuilin Jin, Renjie Tan, Qinghua Jiang, Yadong Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-019-3132-7