title: [Recent progress in multiple sequence alignment].
abstract: Multiple sequence alignment is one of the basic techniques in bioinformatics, and it plays a vital role in structure modeling, functional site prediction, and phylogenetic analysis. In this paper, we review the methodologies and recent advances in the multiple protein sequence alignment, e.g., speeding up the calculation of distances among sequences and employing the iterative refinement and consistency-based scoring function, with emphasis on the use of additional sequence and structural information for improving alignment quality.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China. yangfan@uestc.edu.cn
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Dongming
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Mingyuan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Qingxin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins