Searching for evolutionary distant RNA homologs within genomic sequences using partition function posterior probabilities
Open Access
- 28 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Bioinformatics
- Vol. 9 (1), 61
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-9-61
Abstract
Identification of RNA homologs within genomic stretches is difficult when pairwise sequence identity is low or unalignable flanking residues are present. In both cases structure-sequence or profile/family-sequence alignment programs become difficult to apply because of unreliable RNA structures or family alignments. As such, local sequence-sequence alignment programs are frequently used instead. We have recently demonstrated that maximal expected accuracy alignments using partition function match probabilities (implemented in Probalign) are significantly better than contemporary methods on heterogeneous length protein sequence datasets, thus suggesting an affinity for local alignment.Keywords
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