Fast program for sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities

The key requirements of a good sequence alignment tool are high accuracy and fast execution. The existing Probalign program is a highly accurate tool for sequence alignment of both proteins and nucleotides. However, the time for execution is fairly high. The focus is therefore, to reduce the running time of the existing version of Probalign, maintaining its current accuracy level. The thesis conducts a detail analysis of the performance of Probalign to bring down the running time of the existing code. A modified version of Probalign, Version 1.4 is released. A new program for sequence alignment with faster computation is also introduced.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Bioinformatics - (M.S.)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Year

2011

Author dc:creator

• Prasad, Meera

Contributors dc:contributor

• Usman W. Roshan
• Zhi Wei
• Jason T. L. Wang

• Sequence alignment
• Probalign
• Partition function posterior probabilities
• Bioinformatics
• Computer Sciences

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/94

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.njit.edu:theses-1093