title: DNA multiple sequence alignments.
abstract: In this chapter we examine the procedure of multiple sequence alignment. We first examine the heuristic procedures commonly used in multiple sequence alignment. Next we examine sources of ambiguity involved in the alignment procedure. We suggest that several alignment parameters be employed to examine alignment sensitivity. We end by presenting an experiment with humans showing the ambiguity involved in manual alignment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
authors.forename: Gonzalo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Giribet
authors.forename: Ward C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Wheeler
authors.forename: Jyrki
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Muona
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid