Bioinformatics researchers who perform alignments of long protein sequences face a difficult choice: They can get accurate results in hours (sometimes days), or quick results if they're willing to ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 69, No. 2 (2020), pp. 301-325 (25 pages) The structure of a protein is crucial in determining its functionality and is ...

Sequence alignments are the basic tools of genomics research. Researchers introduce a statistical method for assessing the quality of protein sequence alignments. Sequence alignments are the basic ...

Aligning multiple nucleotide sequences is a prerequisite for many if not most comparative sequence analyses in evolutionary biology. These alignments are often recognized as representing the homology ...