- 3rd Edition home
- Resources for Teachers
- The book's webpage at Wiley
- Part I : Bioinformatics : Analyzing DNA, RNA, and Protein Sequences
- Part II: Functional Genomics: Bioinformatics from DNA to RNA to Protein
- Chapter 8: The Eukaryotic Chromosome
- Chapter 9: DNA Analysis: Microarrays and Next Generation Sequencing
- Chapter 10: Bioinformatic Approaches to RNA
- Chapter 11: RNA Analysis: Microarrays and Next Generation Sequencing
- Chapter 12: Proteomics
- Chapter 13: Protein Structure
- Chapter 14: Functional Genomics
- Part III: Genomics
- Second edition
Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics 3rd Edition
Chapter 6: Multiple Sequence Alignment
This page offers the web documents that are referred to in Chapter 6. In Chapter 3 we discussed pairwise alignment, and then in Chapters 4 and 5 we described how a protein or DNA query can be compared to a database. This chapter covers a series of approaches to multiple sequence alignment, including the popular method of progressive alignment and new methods such as consistency-based and structure-based alignment. We also discuss ways to multiply align long segments of genomic DNA.