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Protein Sequence Alignment

Protein Sequence Alignment is a computational method in bioinformatics that belongs to the class of sequence alignment techniques, specifically distinguished by its application to align amino acid sequences of proteins to identify regions of similarity indicative of evolutionary relationships, structural homology, or functional conservation.

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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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MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput

R. C. Edgar · Nucleic Acids Research · 2004 · 46.5K citations · Full text

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Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

Fabian Sievers, Andreas Wilm, David Dineen et al. · Molecular Systems Biology · 2011 · 16.2K citations · Full text

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Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND

Benjamin Buchfink, Chao Xie, Daniel H. Huson · Nature Methods · 2014 · 15.2K citations

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The Pfam Protein Families Database

Alex Bateman · Nucleic Acids Research · 2002 · 14.2K citations · Full text

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  1. GJ
    Geoffrey J. Barton

    University of Dundee, United Kingdom

    17 publications · 2.7K citations

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  2. DG
    Desmond G. Higgins

    University College Dublin, Ireland

    14 publications · 85.6K citations

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  3. JT
    Julie Thompson

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    13 publications · 83.2K citations

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  4. NV
    Nick V. Grishin

    The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

    14 publications · 3.3K citations

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  5. CN
    Cédric Notredame

    Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain

    12 publications · 2.8K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    38 h-index

    164 publications

    49.6K citations

  2. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    29 h-index

    130 publications

    33.6K citations

  3. National Center for Biotechnology Information

    Bethesda, United States

    23 h-index

    100 publications

    32.9K citations

  4. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, United States

    23 h-index

    81 publications

    82.1K citations

  5. European Molecular Biology Laboratory

    Heidelberg, Germany

    23 h-index

    40 publications

    73.4K citations

  6. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    22 h-index

    73 publications

    11.2K citations

  7. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    22 h-index

    57 publications

    9.6K citations

  8. European Bioinformatics Institute

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    21 h-index

    68 publications

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  1. Nucleic Acids Research

    135 publications · 176.6K citations

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  2. Bioinformatics

    158 publications · 33.3K citations

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  3. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics

    72 publications · 9.8K citations

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  4. BMC Bioinformatics

    79 publications · 15.7K citations

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  5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 41 publications · 15.2K citations

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