Department of Physiological Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1983 Mar;80(5):1382-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.80.5.1382.
Current theory is adequate to the task of finding an optimal alignment between two character strings such as nucleic acids. Most algorithms currently in use must fail to find the homologous alignment between a set of codons for the chicken alpha- and beta-hemoglobin sequence when it is in fact discoverable by a more general treatment of gaps. Fundamental reasons for this are discussed.
当前的理论足以胜任在两个字符序列(如核酸)之间找到最佳比对的任务。目前使用的大多数算法在实际上可以通过更一般的空位处理来发现鸡的α-和β-血红蛋白序列的密码子之间的同源比对时,都会无法找到。本文讨论了这种情况的根本原因。