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To align two sequences go to the Pairwise Alignment tab of the Options Panel:

Select two sequence from the original alignment, select the parameters and click on the Align button. The following parameters are available:

Sequences

The first and the second sequences for the Pairwise Alignment.

Algorithm

The algorithm of the Pairwise Alignment. There are two algorithms:

  1. KAlign - the algorithm, provided by the Kalign tool (integrated as an External Tool, check the Data Analysis Tools page for details). This tool uses the Wu-Manber string-matching algorithm. The algorithm details are described in the corresponding publication [Lassmann T, Sonnhammer EL. Kalign--an accurate and fast multiple sequence alignment algorithm. BMC Bioinformatics. 2005 Dec 12;6:298. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-298. PMID: 16343337; PMCID: PMC1325270 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1325270/].
    The algorithm has the following parameters:
    • Gap open penalty - indicates the penalty applied for opening a gap. The penalty must be negative.
    • Gap extension penalty - indicates the penalty applied for extending a gap.
    • Terminate gap penalty - the penalty to extend gaps from the N/C terminal of protein or 5'/3' terminal of nucleotide sequences.
    • Bonus score - a bonus score that is added to each pair of aligned residues.
  2. Smith-Waterman - the same algorithm, which is used for the Smith-Waterman Search (check the page for the algorithm details - the alignment process works in a same way as the searching process).
    The following parameters are available:
    • Algorithm version - version of the algorithm implementation. Non-classic versions produce the same results as classic but much faster. To use these optimizations our system must support SSE2.
    • Scoring matrix - scoring matrix.
    • Gap open penalty - penalty for opening a gap.
    • Gap extension penalty — penalty for extending a gap.

Output settings

Settings of the output file:

  • In the new window - create a new alignment and open it if checked or just align two sequences of the current  alignment if it is not.
  • Output file - the result file path.
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