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ArticleAlgorithms for molecular biology : AMB2023

EMMA: a new method for computing multiple sequence alignments given a constraint subset alignment.

Chengze Shen, Baqiao Liu, Kelly P Williams, Tandy Warnow

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Chengze ShenComputer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 201 N. Goodwin Ave, Urbana, 61801, IL, USA.
Baqiao LiuComputer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 201 N. Goodwin Ave, Urbana, 61801, IL, USA.
Kelly P WilliamsSandia National Laboratories, 7011 East Ave., Livermore, 94550, CA, USA.
Tandy WarnowComputer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 201 N. Goodwin Ave, Urbana, 61801, IL, USA. warnow@illinois.edu.

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US National Science Foundation 2006069
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Abstract

backgroundAdding sequences into an existing (possibly user-provided) alignment has multiple applications, including updating a large alignment with new data, adding sequences into a constraint alignment constructed using biological knowledge, or computing alignments in the presence of sequence length heterogeneity. Although this is a natural problem, only a few tools have been developed to use this information with high fidelity.

resultsWe present EMMA (Extending Multiple alignments using MAFFT--add) for the problem of adding a set of unaligned sequences into a multiple sequence alignment (i.e., a constraint alignment). EMMA builds on MAFFT--add, which is also designed to add sequences into a given constraint alignment. EMMA improves on MAFFT--add methods by using a divide-and-conquer framework to scale its most accurate version, MAFFT-linsi--add, to constraint alignments with many sequences. We show that EMMA has an accuracy advantage over other techniques for adding sequences into alignments under many realistic conditions and can scale to large datasets with high accuracy (hundreds of thousands of sequences). EMMA is available at https://github.com/c5shen/EMMA .

conclusionsEMMA is a new tool that provides high accuracy and scalability for adding sequences into an existing alignment.

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Constraint alignmentMAFFTMultiple sequence alignment

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PMID38062452
PMCPMC10704716

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