BAliBASE: a benchmark alignment database for the evaluation of multiple alignment programs.

Abstract

Abstract SUMMARY: BAliBASE is a database of manually refined multiple sequence alignments categorized by core blocks of conservation sequence length, similarity, and the presence of insertions and N/C-terminal extensions. AVAILABILITY: From http://www-igbmc. u-strasbg.fr/BioInfo/BAliBASE/index.html

Keywords

Benchmark (surveying)Computer scienceMultiple sequence alignmentDatabaseData miningProgramming languageSequence alignmentBiologyCartographyGeography

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Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire FR

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Year: 1999
Type: article
Volume: 15
Issue: 1
Pages: 87-88
Citations: 473
Access: Closed

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                                    Julie Thompson, 
                                
                                    Frédéric Plewniak, 
                                
                                    Olivier Poch
                                
                            (1999). 
                            BAliBASE: a benchmark alignment database for the evaluation of multiple alignment programs.. 
                            Bioinformatics
                            , 15
                            (1)
                            , 87-88.
                            https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/15.1.87

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DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/15.1.87