[Biococoa-dev] starting BCAlignment

[Alexander Griekspoor]

I can ;-)
Actually for 4Peaks I use a global alignment which 1) doesn't penaltize 
beginning and end gaps (almost making it local), 2) doesn't penalitize 
extra above a certain gap length (meaning that introns in your 
sequences don't end up with huge penalties).... A nice example where 
you pick a certain alignment algorithm for a certain situation simply 
because it's the best fit. In general one algorithm isn't better per se 
than the other, often they're just suited for different situations...
Alex

On 10-mrt-05, at 22:23, Philipp Seibel wrote:

> The piece of code alex just sent arround is great to understand what a 
> global alignment is. Alex uses two types of scores, a match and a 
> mismatch score, this is the simplest way to align sequences. It 
> produces quite good alignments for dna sequences, but in the most 
> common cases, you need the scoring matrix to score different kind of 
> matches and mismatches. Another point is to differentiate between 
> gap-open and gap-extension costs, but this is more relevant at local 
> alignments.
> Ok i stop here, because nobody can follow me anymore ..... ;-)
>
> Phil
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