Multiple Sequence Alignment with Genetic Algorithms

The multiple sequence alignment problem is one the most common task in the analysis of sequential data, especially in bioinformatics. In this paper, we propose to use a genetic algorithm to compute a multiple sequence alignment, by optimizing a simple scoring function. Even though the idea of using genetic algorithms is not new, the presented approach differs in the representation of the multiple alignment and in the simplicity of the genetic operators. The results so far obtained are reported and discussed in this paper.

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