PicXAA-Web: a web-based platform for non-progressive maximum expected accuracy alignment of multiple biological sequences. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In this article, we introduce PicXAA-Web, a web-based platform for accurate probabilistic alignment of multiple biological sequences. The core of PicXAA-Web consists of PicXAA, a multiple protein/DNA sequence alignment algorithm, and PicXAA-R, an extension of PicXAA for structural alignment of RNA sequences. Both PicXAA and PicXAA-R are probabilistic non-progressive alignment algorithms that aim to find the optimal alignment of multiple biological sequences by maximizing the expected accuracy. PicXAA and PicXAA-R greedily build up the alignment from sequence regions with high local similarity, thereby yielding an accurate global alignment that effectively captures local similarities among sequences. PicXAA-Web integrates these two algorithms in a user-friendly web platform for accurate alignment and analysis of multiple protein, DNA and RNA sequences. PicXAA-Web can be freely accessed at http://gsp.tamu.edu/picxaa/.

published proceedings

  • Nucleic Acids Res

author list (cited authors)

  • Sahraeian, S., & Yoon, B.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Sahraeian, Sayed Mohammad Ebrahim||Yoon, Byung-Jun

publication date

  • July 2011