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Contents Contributors Preface 1. Sequence Alignment: Concepts and History 2. Insertion and Deletion Events, Their Molecular Mechanisms and Their Impact on Sequence Alignments 3. Local versus Global Alignments 4. Computing Multiple Sequence Alignment with Template based Methods 5. Sequence Evolution Models for Simultaneous Alignment and Phylogeny Reconstruction 6. Phylogenetic Hypotheses and the Utility of Multiple Sequence Alignment 7. Structural and Evolutionary Considerations for Multiple Sequence Alignment of RNA, and the Challenges for Algorithms that Ignore Them 8. Constructing Alignment Benchmarks 9. Simulation Approaches to Evaluating Alignment Error and Methods for Comparing Alternate Alignments 10. Robust Inferences from Ambiguous Alignments 11. Strategies for Efficient Exploitation of the Informational Content of Protein Multiple Alignments References
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Bioinformatics.
Computational biology.
Sequence Alignment -- methods.