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| Title: |
Analysis and Comparison of Benchmarks for Multiple Sequence Alignment |
| Author: |
Blackshields, Gordon Wallace, Iain M. Larkin, Mark Higgins, Desmond G. |
| Appeared in: |
In silico biology |
| Paging: | Volume 6 (2006) nr. 4 pages 321-339 |
| Year: |
2006-09-21 |
| Contents: |
The most popular way of comparing the performance of multiple sequence alignment programs is to use empirical testing on sets of test sequences. Several such test sets now exist, each with potential strengths and weaknesses. We apply several different alignment packages to 6 benchmark datasets, and compare their relative performances. HOMSTRAD, a collection of alignments of homologous proteins, is regularly used as a benchmark for sequence alignment though it is not designed as such, and lacks annotation of reliable regions within the alignment. We introduce this annotation into HOMSTRAD using protein structural superposition. Results on each database show that method performance is dependent on the input sequences. Alignment benchmarks are regularly used in combination to measure performance across a spectrum of alignment problems. Through combining benchmarks, it is possible to detect whether a program has been over-optimised for a single dataset, or alignment problem type. |
| Publisher: |
IOS Press |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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