TY - GEN
T1 - Improving profile-profile alignments via log average scoring
AU - Von Öhsen, Niklas
AU - Zimmer, Ralf
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Alignments of frequency profiles against frequency profiles have a wide scope of applications in currently used bioinformatic analysis tools ranging from multiple alignment methods based on the progressive alignment approach to detecting of structural similarities based on remote sequence homology. We present the new log average scoring approach to calculating the score to be used with alignment algorithms like dynamic programming and show that it significantly outperforms the commonly used average scoring and dot product approach on a fold recognition benchmark. The score is also applicable to the problem of aligning two multiple alignments since every multiple alignment induces a frequency profile.
AB - Alignments of frequency profiles against frequency profiles have a wide scope of applications in currently used bioinformatic analysis tools ranging from multiple alignment methods based on the progressive alignment approach to detecting of structural similarities based on remote sequence homology. We present the new log average scoring approach to calculating the score to be used with alignment algorithms like dynamic programming and show that it significantly outperforms the commonly used average scoring and dot product approach on a fold recognition benchmark. The score is also applicable to the problem of aligning two multiple alignments since every multiple alignment induces a frequency profile.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84959053798
U2 - 10.1007/3-540-44696-6_2
DO - 10.1007/3-540-44696-6_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84959053798
SN - 3540425160
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 11
EP - 26
BT - Algorithms in Bioinformatics - First International Workshop, WABI 2001 Århus Denmark, August 28-31, 2001 Proceedings
A2 - Moret, Bernard M. E.
A2 - Gascuel, Olivier
PB - Springer
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, WABI 2001
Y2 - 28 August 2001 through 31 August 2001
ER -