MaxAlign: maximizing usable data in an alignment
Open Access
- 28 August 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Bioinformatics
- Vol. 8 (1) , 312
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-8-312
Abstract
The presence of gaps in an alignment of nucleotide or protein sequences is often an inconvenience for bioinformatical studies. In phylogenetic and other analyses, for instance, gapped columns are often discarded entirely from the alignment.Keywords
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