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Construction and Analysis of Amino Acid Substitution Matrices for Optimal Alignment of Microbial Rhodopsin Sequences

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Abstract

Pairwise alignment of amino acid sequences is the basic tool of bioinformatics, which is widely used both independently and within numerous more complex methods. The effectiveness of this tool critically depends on the scoring function used, which consists of a substitution matrix and gap penalties. In this work, amino acid substitution matrices for the superfamily of microbial rhodopsins (RHOD) were constructed and analyzed and then compared with a set of general-purpose matrices (BLOSUM, VTML, PFASUM). It was shown that all matrices allow constructing alignments of microbial rhodopsin sequences of almost the same quality, but only BLOSUM and VTML matrices and their linear combinations with RHOD matrices allow revealing homology between microbial rhodopsins and heliorhodopsin.

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    V. N. Novoseletsky, G. A. Armeev & K. V. Shaitan

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Seriya 16: Biologiya, 2019, Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 27–33.

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Novoseletsky, V.N., Armeev, G.A. & Shaitan, K.V. Construction and Analysis of Amino Acid Substitution Matrices for Optimal Alignment of Microbial Rhodopsin Sequences. Moscow Univ. Biol.Sci. Bull. 74, 21–25 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S009639251901005X

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