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BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
PAC: Progressive Alignment with Consensus Sequences
Computation of multiple sequence alignments is one of the major open problems in computational molecular biology. The purpose of this study was to provide a new method, PAC (Progre...
Ke Liu, Mansur H. Samadzadeh
GECCO
2006
Springer
171views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
A hybrid genetic search for multiple sequence alignment
This paper proposes a hybrid genetic algorithm for multiple sequence alignment. The algorithm evolves guide sequences and aligns input sequences based on the guide sequences. It a...
Seung-Hyun Moon, Sung-Soon Choi, Byung Ro Moon
ARC
2007
Springer
123views Hardware» more  ARC 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
Multiple Sequence Alignment Using Reconfigurable Computing
The alignment of multiple protein (or DNA) sequences is a current problem in Bioinformatics. ClustalW is the most popular heuristic algorithm for multiple sequence alignment. Pairw...
Carlos R. Erig Lima, Heitor S. Lopes, Maiko R. Mor...
RECOMB
1997
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A more efficient approximation scheme for tree alignment
We present a new polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) for tree alignment, which is an important variant of multiple sequence alignment. As in the existing PTASs in the liter...
Lusheng Wang, Tao Jiang, Dan Gusfield
RECOMB
1997
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A branch-and-cut algorithm for multiple sequence alignment
Multiple sequence alignment is an important problem in computational biology. We study the Maximum Trace formulation introduced by Kececioglu [?]. We first phrase the problem in ...
Knut Reinert, Hans-Peter Lenhof, Petra Mutzel, Kur...
CPM
1998
Springer
115views Combinatorics» more  CPM 1998»
13 years 8 months ago
Aligning Alignments
d abstract) John Kececioglu and Dean Starrett Department of Computer Science The University of Arizona Tucson AZ 85721, USA A basic computational problem that arises in both the...
John D. Kececioglu, Weiqing Zhang
STOC
2000
ACM
156views Algorithms» more  STOC 2000»
13 years 9 months ago
Near optimal multiple alignment within a band in polynomial time
Multiple sequence alignment is a fundamental problem in computational biology. Because of its notorious difficulties, aligning sequences within a constant band (c-diagonal) is a ...
Ming Li, Bin Ma, Lusheng Wang
IPPS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Performance of Multiple Sequence Alignment Analysis in Multi-Client Environments
This paper is concerned with the efficient execution of multiplesequence alignmentmethodsin a multipleclientenvironment. Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a computationally ex...
Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Eric Stahlber...
GECCO
2003
Springer
129views Optimization» more  GECCO 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Evolutionary Two-Dimensional DNA Sequence Alignment
This article presents a model for DNA sequence alignment. In our model, a finite state automaton writes two-dimensional maps of nucleotide sequences. An evolutionary method for se...
Edgar E. Vallejo, Fernando Ramos
GECCO
2003
Springer
128views Optimization» more  GECCO 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Evolving Consensus Sequence for Multiple Sequence Alignment with a Genetic Algorithm
In this paper we present an approach that evolves the consensus sequence [25] for multiple sequence alignment (MSA) with genetic algorithm (GA). We have developed an encoding schem...
Conrad Shyu, James A. Foster