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ArticleBiomimetics (Basel, Switzerland)2025

A List-Based Parallel Bacterial Foraging Algorithm for the Multiple Sequence Alignment Problem.

Ernesto Rios-Willars, María Magdalena Delabra-Salinas, Alfredo Reyes-Acosta

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Article in Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ernesto Rios-WillarsFaculty of Systems, The Autonomous University of Coahuila, Saltillo 25000, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-7157-8884
María Magdalena Delabra-SalinasFaculty of Nursing, The Autonomous University of Coahuila, Saltillo 25000, Mexico.
Alfredo Reyes-AcostaFaculty of Systems, The Autonomous University of Coahuila, Saltillo 25000, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-2022-8048

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Abstract

A parallel bacterial foraging algorithm was developed for the multiple sequence alignment problem. Four sets of homologous genetic and protein sequences related to Alzheimer's disease among various species were collected from the NCBI database for convergence analysis and performance comparison. The main question was the following: is the bacterial foraging algorithm suitable for the multiple sequence alignment problem? Three versions of the algorithm were contrasted by performing a

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