Markovian structures in biological sequence alignments

Abstract The alignment of multiple homologous biopolymer sequences is crucial in research on protein modeling and engineering, molecular evolution, and prediction in terms of both gene function and gene product structure. In this article we provide a coherent view of the two recent models used for multiple sequence alignment—the hidden Markov model (HMM) and the block-based motif model—to develop a set of new algorithms that have both the sensitivity of the block-based model and the flexibility of the HMM. In particular, we decompose the standard HMM into two components: the insertion component, which is captured by the so-called “propagation model,” and the deletion component, which is described by a deletion vector. Such a decomposition serves as a basis for rational compromise between biological specificity and model flexibility. Furthermore, we introduce a Bayesian model selection criterion that—in combination with the propagation model, genetic algorithm, and other computational aspects—forms the cor...

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