sekvenssivertailuin
Sekvenssivertailuin, meaning sequence alignment in Finnish, is a fundamental bioinformatics technique used to arrange one or more biological sequences, such as DNA, RNA, or protein sequences, to identify regions of similarity. These regions of similarity can indicate functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships between the sequences. The process involves inserting gaps into the sequences to maximize the number of matching characters.
The most common types of sequence alignment are pairwise alignment and multiple sequence alignment. Pairwise alignment
Algorithms like Needleman-Wunsch (for global alignment) and Smith-Waterman (for local alignment) are widely used for pairwise
Sequence alignment is crucial for a wide range of biological research applications, including gene prediction, protein