RBT-L: A location based approach for solving the Multiple Sequence Alignment problem Online publication date: Wed, 27-Jan-2010
by Javid Taheri, Albert Y. Zomaya
International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA), Vol. 6, No. 1, 2010
Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to solve the Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) problem. The Rubber Band Technique: Location Base (RBT-L) introduced in this paper, is inspired by the elastic behaviour of a Rubber Band (RB) on a plate with poles. RBT-L is an iterative optimisation algorithm designed and implemented to find the optimal alignment for a set of input protein sequences. RBT-L is tested with one of the well-known benchmarks (BALiBASE 2.0) in this field. The obtained results show the superiority of the proposed technique even in the case of formidable sequences.
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