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Parallelization of the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program
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Summary: Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is an important step in comparative sequence analyses. Parallelization is a key technique for reducing the time required for large-scale sequence analyses. The three calculation stages, all-to-all comparison, progressive alignment and iterative refinement, of the MAFFT MSA program were parallelized using the POSIX Threads library. Two natural parallelization strategies (best-first and simple hill-climbing) were implemented for the iterative refinement stage. Based on comparisons of the objective scores and benchmark scores between the two approaches, we selected a simple hill-climbing approach as the default. Availability: The parallelized version of MAFFT is available at http://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/software/. This version currently supports the Linux operating system only. Contact: kazutaka.katoh@aist.go.jp Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Authors
- Katoh, K., & Toh, H.
- Venue
- Bioinformatics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2010-04-28
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 15
- Pages
- 1899-1900
- ISSN
- 1367-4803 (ISSN-L)
- 1367-4811
- OpenAlex
- W2141747524
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- 928
- References
- 13
- FWCI
- 17.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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