The Maximum Weight Trace Problem in Multiple Sequence Alignment

We define a new problem in multiple sequence alignment, called maximum weight trace. The problem formalizes in a natural way the common practice of merging pairwise alignments to form multiple sequence alignments, and contains a version of the minimum sum of pairs alignment problem as a special case.

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