Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a satellite of hepatitis B virus (HBV) for transmission and
propagation, and infects nearly 20 million people worldwide. The HDV genome is composed …

Inference of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) is a critical part of phylogenetic and
comparative genomics studies. However, from the same set of sequences different MSAs …

The evidentiary basis of the currently accepted classification of living amphibians is
discussed and shown not to warrant the degree of authority conferred on it by use and …

Hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been extensively used in biological sequence
analysis. In this paper, we give a tutorial review of HMMs and their applications in a variety …

Protein sequence alignment is the task of identifying evolutionarily or structurally related
positions in a collection of amino acid sequences. Although the protein alignment problem …

To date, few attempts have been made to benchmark the alignment algorithms upon nucleic
acid sequences. Frequently, sophisticated PAM or BLOSUM like models are used to align …

Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a satellite of hepatitis B virus (HBV) for transmission and
propagation and infects nearly 20 million people worldwide. The HDV genome is a compact …

The Palaeacanthocephala is traditionally represented by 2 orders, Echinorhynchida and
Polymorphida, with 10 and 3 families, respectively. To test the monophyly of the class, these …

We describe a new global multiple-alignment program capable of aligning a large number of
genomic regions. Our progressive-alignment approach incorporates the following ideas …

Seascapes are complex environments, and populations are often isolated by factors other
than distance. Here we investigate the role of coastal habitat preference and philopatry in …