Sequence progressive alignment, a framework for practical large-scale probabilistic consistency alignment Export

@article{citeulike:3755514, abstract = {Motivation: Multiple sequence alignment is a cornerstone of comparative genomics. Much work has been done to improve methods for this task, particularly for the alignment of small sequences, and especially for amino acid sequences. However, less work has been done in making promising methods that work on the small-scale practical for the alignment of much larger genomic sequences. Results: We take the method of probabilistic consistency alignment and make it practical for the alignment of large genomic sequences. In so doing we develop a set of new technical methods, combined in a framework we term sequence progressive alignment', because it allows us to iteratively compute an alignment by passing over the input sequences from left to right. The result is that we massively decrease the memory consumption of the program relative to a naive implementation. The general engineering of the challenges faced in scaling such a computationally intensive process offer valuable lessons for planning related large-scale sequence analysis algorithms. We also further show the strong performance of Pecan using an extended analysis of ancient repeat alignments. Pecan is now one of the default alignment programs that has and is being used by a number of whole genome comparative genomic projects. Availability: The Pecan program is freely available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/\~{}bjp/pecan/ Pecan whole genome alignments can be found in the Ensembl genome browser. Contact: benedict@soe.ucsc.edu 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn630}, author = {Paten, Benedict and Herrero, Javier and Beal, Kathryn and Birney, Ewan}, citeulike-article-id = {3755514}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btn630}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/3/295}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19056777}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19056777}, day = {4}, doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btn630}, journal = {Bioinformatics}, keywords = {alignment}, month = {December}, pages = {btn630+}, posted-at = {2009-01-30 17:04:17}, priority = {2}, title = {Sequence progressive alignment, a framework for practical large-scale probabilistic consistency alignment}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btn630}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3755514 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3755514 N2 - Motivation: Multiple sequence alignment is a cornerstone of comparative genomics. Much work has been done to improve methods for this task, particularly for the alignment of small sequences, and especially for amino acid sequences. However, less work has been done in making promising methods that work on the small-scale practical for the alignment of much larger genomic sequences. Results: We take the method of probabilistic consistency alignment and make it practical for the alignment of large genomic sequences. In so doing we develop a set of new technical methods, combined in a framework we term sequence progressive alignment', because it allows us to iteratively compute an alignment by passing over the input sequences from left to right. The result is that we massively decrease the memory consumption of the program relative to a naive implementation. The general engineering of the challenges faced in scaling such a computationally intensive process offer valuable lessons for planning related large-scale sequence analysis algorithms. We also further show the strong performance of Pecan using an extended analysis of ancient repeat alignments. Pecan is now one of the default alignment programs that has and is being used by a number of whole genome comparative genomic projects. Availability: The Pecan program is freely available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~bjp/pecan/ Pecan whole genome alignments can be found in the Ensembl genome browser. Contact: benedict@soe.ucsc.edu 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn630 JF - Bioinformatics TI - Sequence progressive alignment, a framework for practical large-scale probabilistic consistency alignment SP - btn630 KW - alignment AU - Paten, Benedict AU - Herrero, Javier AU - Beal, Kathryn AU - Birney, Ewan PY - 2008/12/04/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btn630 ER -