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  • Title: MSAProbs: multiple sequence alignment based on pair hidden Markov models and partition function posterior probabilities.
    Author: Liu Y, Schmidt B, Maskell DL.
    Journal: Bioinformatics; 2010 Aug 15; 26(16):1958-64. PubMed ID: 20576627.
    Abstract:
    MOTIVATION: Multiple sequence alignment is of central importance to bioinformatics and computational biology. Although a large number of algorithms for computing a multiple sequence alignment have been designed, the efficient computation of highly accurate multiple alignments is still a challenge. RESULTS: We present MSAProbs, a new and practical multiple alignment algorithm for protein sequences. The design of MSAProbs is based on a combination of pair hidden Markov models and partition functions to calculate posterior probabilities. Furthermore, two critical bioinformatics techniques, namely weighted probabilistic consistency transformation and weighted profile-profile alignment, are incorporated to improve alignment accuracy. Assessed using the popular benchmarks: BAliBASE, PREFAB, SABmark and OXBENCH, MSAProbs achieves statistically significant accuracy improvements over the existing top performing aligners, including ClustalW, MAFFT, MUSCLE, ProbCons and Probalign. Furthermore, MSAProbs is optimized for multi-core CPUs by employing a multi-threaded design, leading to a competitive execution time compared to other aligners. AVAILABILITY: The source code of MSAProbs, written in C++, is freely and publicly available from http://msaprobs.sourceforge.net.
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