4. Sequence alignments


Sequence alignment is the procedure of comparing two or more sequences, producing a correspondence between series of individual characters or patterns that are in the same order in the input sequences.

Distance and similarity

Global and local alignment

L G P S S K Q T G K G S - S R I W D N
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L N - I T K S A G K G A I M R L G D A


------- T G K G --------
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------- A G K G --------