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Position-specific Gap Penalty

Position-Specific Gap Penalty is a gap penalty model in sequence alignment that assigns gap costs based on the specific position within the sequence, distinguishing it from uniform or affine gap penalties by incorporating local context-dependent variation in gap scoring.

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CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

Julie Thompson, Desmond G. Higgins, Toby J. Gibson · Nucleic Acids Research · 1994 · 64.9K citations · Full text

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Using iterative dynamic programming to obtain accurate pairwise and multiple alignments of protein structures.

Mark Gerstein, Michael Levitt · PubMed · 1996 · 136 citations

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Planned and unplanned gaps in radiotherapy: the importance of gap position and gap duration

Krzysztof Składowski, Matthew Law, B. Maciejewski et al. · Radiotherapy and Oncology · 1994 · 89 citations

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A performance enhanced PSI-BLAST based on hybrid alignment

Yuheng Li, Nicholas Chia, Mario Lauria et al. · Bioinformatics · 2010 · 18 citations · Full text

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Bayesian Top-Down Protein Sequence Alignment with Inferred Position-Specific Gap Penalties

Andrew F. Neuwald, Stephen F. Altschul · PLoS Computational Biology · 2016 · 18 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JT
    Julie Thompson

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    2 publications · 65K citations

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    Toby J. Gibson

    European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany

    1 publications · 64.9K citations

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  3. SF
    Stephen F. Altschul

    National Institutes of Health, United States

    1 publications · 18 citations

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  4. ML
    Matthew Law

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    1 publications · 89 citations

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  5. DG
    Desmond G. Higgins

    University College Dublin, Ireland

    1 publications · 64.9K citations

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  1. European Molecular Biology Laboratory

    Heidelberg, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    65K citations

  2. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    72 citations

  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    136 citations

  4. The Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology

    Warsaw, Poland

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    178 citations

  5. Institute of Cancer Research

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    267 citations

  6. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  7. European Molecular Biology Laboratory

    Hamburg, Germany

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    129.9K citations

  8. Telethon Institute Of Genetics And Medicine

    Naples, Italy

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    72 citations

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  1. PLoS Computational Biology

    1 publications · 18 citations

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  2. Bioinformatics

    1 publications · 18 citations

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  3. Radiotherapy and Oncology

    1 publications · 89 citations

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  4. Computer applications in the biosciences

    CABIOS · 1 publications · 12 citations

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  5. PubMed

    Repository · 1 publications · 136 citations

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