Performance Analysis of Multiple Sequence Alignment Tools
Bharath Reddy, Richard Fields · 2024
Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is a process of aligning two or more sequences with the aim of finding relation between the sequences or organisms. The sequences could have mutations in ways of insertion, deletion or rearrangement of the portion of the sequences for reasons unknown over time. The sequences used for alignment could be DNA or RNA or Genes. Today, MSA is an important procedure used as an intial step in molecular biology, computational biology and bioinformatics. The outcome in these fields are, phylogenetic tree construction, protein secondary and tertiary structure analysis, and protein function prediction analysis.