Multiple Alignment using Hydrophobic Clusters : a tool to align and identify distantly related proteins

Size: px
Start display at page:

Download "Multiple Alignment using Hydrophobic Clusters : a tool to align and identify distantly related proteins"

Transcription

1 Multiple Alignment using Hydrophobic Clusters : a tool to align and identify distantly related proteins J. Baussand, C. Deremble, A. Carbone Analytical Genomics Laboratoire d Immuno-Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire des infections parasitaires, INSERM U511 91, boulevard de l Hôpital Paris, France

2 Alignment and Homology Search Reliability (1) A ) Structure Good reliability B ) Sequence MFPDAHCELVHRNPFELLIAVVLSAQ MFPDAHCEL -VHRNPFELLIAVVLSAQ PGLRLPGC-----VDAFEQGVRAILGQL YHDNEWGVPETDSKKLFEMICLEGQQAG E.E. Hill and S. E. Brenner, IPAM Structural Proteomics, 2004

3 Alignment and Homology Detection Reliability (2) Introduction of structural information in 1) sequences 2) alignment parameters: - substitution matrices (Overington et al., 1992, Teodorescu et al., 2004) - gap penalties (Lesk et al., 1986)

4 Hydrophobic Clusters Hydrophobic core Folding stability Surface Protein interactions

5 Prediction of Hydrophobic Clusters in Sequences HCA α-helical 2D representation 1D representation N-ter C-ter Specific periodicity : +/- 1, (2,) 3, 4 Manual alignment Automatic alignment Gaboriaud et al., 1987 Baussand, Deremble and Carbone, in preparation

6 Hydrophobic Clusters Properties 145 protein families : 613 sequences ( < 30 % identity pairwise ) % RSS overlapping HC : 89.8% % HC overlapping RSS : 85.7% THC RSS HC THC FHC Mean length : Mean % solvent accessible surface : % Identity: % Hydrophobic position conserved :

7 Alignment of Sequences using Hydrophobic Clusters All residues under the same evolution pressure Evolution pressure in Structure > out of Structure Substitution Matrix Gap penalties Structure specific Substitution Matrix Gap penalties Out of structure specific Substitution Matrix Gap penalties W A F G A W A F G A P P L L W H W I in HC out of HC Thompson et al., substitution matrices (24 in structure, 24 out of structure)

8 Evaluation of the HC Fitting Matrices (1) 8 homologous couples of protein with reference alignments 24 matrices In struct., 24 matrices Out struct. GOP, GEP : 0 to 15 cgop = GOP and cgep = GEP 4 matrices (HSDM, Blosum30, Blosum62, Gonnet) GOP, GEP : 0 to 15 % Correctly Aligned Paires (% CAP) Results with optimized parameters for each couple Alignment landscape

9 Evaluation of the HC fitting matrices (2) CpG binding proteins (α/β, 24% identity) Landscape of the % CAP according to gap penalties : Blosum62 GEP 66 % 67 % GEP GOP GOP

10 Evaluation of the HC fitting matrices (2 ) HSDM Landscape of the % CAP according to gap penalties GEP α 26% α 13% α 5% β 13% β 9% β 11% α/β 24% α 16% Blosum62 GOP

11 Evaluation of the HC fitting matrices (3) Parameters for best average on the 8 couples : Matrix GOP-GEP Mean % CAP 2 matrices HSDM (Prlic et al., 2000) Blosum62 (Henikoff, 1992) Gonnet (Gonnet et al., 1992) Blosum30 (Henikoff, 1992)

12 Evaluation of the HC fitting matrices (4) Average landscape Blosum62 HSDM GEP GOP

13 Tests for Evaluation of the HC fitting approach 8 couples of protein with reference alignments 1 matrix out Struct. GOP, GEP : 0 to 15 1 matrix in Struct. cgop, cgep : 0 to 15 4 matrices (HSDM, Blosum30, Blosum62, Gonnet) GOP, GEP : 0 to 15 % Correctly Aligned Paires (% CAP) Alignment results with optimized parameters for each couple

14 Evaluation of the HC fitting gap penalties Best Results with Optimized Parameters for the 8 couples : Matrix % CAP matrices % +8.9% = +10.8% +1.5% +1.6% = = HSDM (Prlic et al., 2000) Blosum62 (Henikoff, 1992) Gonnet (Gonnet et al., 1992) Blosum30 (Henikoff, 1992) %Sequence Id 24% 26% 16% 13% 5% 13% 9% 11% Structural class α/β α α α α β β β

15 Sequence Alignment Approaches Comparison Plastocyanin Azurin ( β, 13% Id ) HSDM HCA + Manual Alignment (Gaboriaud et al., 1987)

16 Improvement of Remote Protein Alignment HC fitting approach : Improvement of pairwise sequence alignment for distantly related proteins Multiple Alignment : Distance matrix for the phylogenetic guide tree Homology Detection Usually : Alignment score

17 Evaluation of Homogy and Phylogenetic Distance Cpg Binding proteins Landscape of %CAP Score Score Blosum62 HSDM Alignment Score + Evaluation of Hydrophobic Clusters superimposition SOV (Zemla et al., 1993) Detect homologous protein (< 30 % identity) Evaluate Distance among 2 sequences

18 Perspectives Target sequence Local Database (Trembl, Swissprot, ) Pairwise alignement Score : homologous? Multiple Alignement Set of homologous sequences + distances

19 Acknowlegements Alessandra Carbone Sophie Abby SOV index development and analysis Thomas Rolland Database development and Web application Lab web address :

Week 10: Homology Modelling (II) - HHpred

Week 10: Homology Modelling (II) - HHpred Week 10: Homology Modelling (II) - HHpred Course: Tools for Structural Biology Fabian Glaser BKU - Technion 1 2 Identify and align related structures by sequence methods is not an easy task All comparative

More information

Quantifying sequence similarity

Quantifying sequence similarity Quantifying sequence similarity Bas E. Dutilh Systems Biology: Bioinformatic Data Analysis Utrecht University, February 16 th 2016 After this lecture, you can define homology, similarity, and identity

More information

Substitution matrices

Substitution matrices Introduction to Bioinformatics Substitution matrices Jacques van Helden Jacques.van-Helden@univ-amu.fr Université d Aix-Marseille, France Lab. Technological Advances for Genomics and Clinics (TAGC, INSERM

More information

Sequence analysis and comparison

Sequence analysis and comparison The aim with sequence identification: Sequence analysis and comparison Marjolein Thunnissen Lund September 2012 Is there any known protein sequence that is homologous to mine? Are there any other species

More information

Large-Scale Genomic Surveys

Large-Scale Genomic Surveys Bioinformatics Subtopics Fold Recognition Secondary Structure Prediction Docking & Drug Design Protein Geometry Protein Flexibility Homology Modeling Sequence Alignment Structure Classification Gene Prediction

More information

Sara C. Madeira. Universidade da Beira Interior. (Thanks to Ana Teresa Freitas, IST for useful resources on this subject)

Sara C. Madeira. Universidade da Beira Interior. (Thanks to Ana Teresa Freitas, IST for useful resources on this subject) Bioinformática Sequence Alignment Pairwise Sequence Alignment Universidade da Beira Interior (Thanks to Ana Teresa Freitas, IST for useful resources on this subject) 1 16/3/29 & 23/3/29 27/4/29 Outline

More information

THEORY. Based on sequence Length According to the length of sequence being compared it is of following two types

THEORY. Based on sequence Length According to the length of sequence being compared it is of following two types Exp 11- THEORY Sequence Alignment is a process of aligning two sequences to achieve maximum levels of identity between them. This help to derive functional, structural and evolutionary relationships between

More information

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool Basic Local Alignment Search Tool Alignments used to uncover homologies between sequences combined with phylogenetic studies o can determine orthologous and paralogous relationships Local Alignment uses

More information

Bioinformatics. Scoring Matrices. David Gilbert Bioinformatics Research Centre

Bioinformatics. Scoring Matrices. David Gilbert Bioinformatics Research Centre Bioinformatics Scoring Matrices David Gilbert Bioinformatics Research Centre www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow Learning Objectives To explain the requirement

More information

Sequence Bioinformatics. Multiple Sequence Alignment Waqas Nasir

Sequence Bioinformatics. Multiple Sequence Alignment Waqas Nasir Sequence Bioinformatics Multiple Sequence Alignment Waqas Nasir 2010-11-12 Multiple Sequence Alignment One amino acid plays coy; a pair of homologous sequences whisper; many aligned sequences shout out

More information

Ch. 9 Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA)

Ch. 9 Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) Ch. 9 Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) - gather seqs. to make MSA - doing MSA with ClustalW - doing MSA with Tcoffee - comparing seqs. that cannot align Introduction - from pairwise alignment to MSA -

More information

Similarity searching summary (2)

Similarity searching summary (2) Similarity searching / sequence alignment summary Biol4230 Thurs, February 22, 2016 Bill Pearson wrp@virginia.edu 4-2818 Pinn 6-057 What have we covered? Homology excess similiarity but no excess similarity

More information

Overview Multiple Sequence Alignment

Overview Multiple Sequence Alignment Overview Multiple Sequence Alignment Inge Jonassen Bioinformatics group Dept. of Informatics, UoB Inge.Jonassen@ii.uib.no Definition/examples Use of alignments The alignment problem scoring alignments

More information

Chapter 5. Proteomics and the analysis of protein sequence Ⅱ

Chapter 5. Proteomics and the analysis of protein sequence Ⅱ Proteomics Chapter 5. Proteomics and the analysis of protein sequence Ⅱ 1 Pairwise similarity searching (1) Figure 5.5: manual alignment One of the amino acids in the top sequence has no equivalent and

More information

Sequence Alignment: Scoring Schemes. COMP 571 Luay Nakhleh, Rice University

Sequence Alignment: Scoring Schemes. COMP 571 Luay Nakhleh, Rice University Sequence Alignment: Scoring Schemes COMP 571 Luay Nakhleh, Rice University Scoring Schemes Recall that an alignment score is aimed at providing a scale to measure the degree of similarity (or difference)

More information

Grouping of amino acids and recognition of protein structurally conserved regions by reduced alphabets of amino acids

Grouping of amino acids and recognition of protein structurally conserved regions by reduced alphabets of amino acids Science in China Series C: Life Sciences 2007 Science in China Press Springer-Verlag Grouping of amino acids and recognition of protein structurally conserved regions by reduced alphabets of amino acids

More information

Homology Modeling (Comparative Structure Modeling) GBCB 5874: Problem Solving in GBCB

Homology Modeling (Comparative Structure Modeling) GBCB 5874: Problem Solving in GBCB Homology Modeling (Comparative Structure Modeling) Aims of Structural Genomics High-throughput 3D structure determination and analysis To determine or predict the 3D structures of all the proteins encoded

More information

Scoring Matrices. Shifra Ben-Dor Irit Orr

Scoring Matrices. Shifra Ben-Dor Irit Orr Scoring Matrices Shifra Ben-Dor Irit Orr Scoring matrices Sequence alignment and database searching programs compare sequences to each other as a series of characters. All algorithms (programs) for comparison

More information

Algorithms in Bioinformatics FOUR Pairwise Sequence Alignment. Pairwise Sequence Alignment. Convention: DNA Sequences 5. Sequence Alignment

Algorithms in Bioinformatics FOUR Pairwise Sequence Alignment. Pairwise Sequence Alignment. Convention: DNA Sequences 5. Sequence Alignment Algorithms in Bioinformatics FOUR Sami Khuri Department of Computer Science San José State University Pairwise Sequence Alignment Homology Similarity Global string alignment Local string alignment Dot

More information

Exercise 5. Sequence Profiles & BLAST

Exercise 5. Sequence Profiles & BLAST Exercise 5 Sequence Profiles & BLAST 1 Substitution Matrix (BLOSUM62) Likelihood to substitute one amino acid with another Figure taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/blosum 2 Substitution Matrix (BLOSUM62)

More information

CMPS 6630: Introduction to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Structure Comparison

CMPS 6630: Introduction to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Structure Comparison CMPS 6630: Introduction to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Structure Comparison Protein Structure Comparison Motivation Understand sequence and structure variability Understand Domain architecture

More information

Optimization of a New Score Function for the Detection of Remote Homologs

Optimization of a New Score Function for the Detection of Remote Homologs PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Genetics 41:498 503 (2000) Optimization of a New Score Function for the Detection of Remote Homologs Maricel Kann, 1 Bin Qian, 2 and Richard A. Goldstein 1,2 * 1 Department

More information

Sequence Alignment: A General Overview. COMP Fall 2010 Luay Nakhleh, Rice University

Sequence Alignment: A General Overview. COMP Fall 2010 Luay Nakhleh, Rice University Sequence Alignment: A General Overview COMP 571 - Fall 2010 Luay Nakhleh, Rice University Life through Evolution All living organisms are related to each other through evolution This means: any pair of

More information

Pairwise Alignment. Guan-Shieng Huang. Dept. of CSIE, NCNU. Pairwise Alignment p.1/55

Pairwise Alignment. Guan-Shieng Huang. Dept. of CSIE, NCNU. Pairwise Alignment p.1/55 Pairwise Alignment Guan-Shieng Huang shieng@ncnu.edu.tw Dept. of CSIE, NCNU Pairwise Alignment p.1/55 Approach 1. Problem definition 2. Computational method (algorithms) 3. Complexity and performance Pairwise

More information

Homology Modeling. Roberto Lins EPFL - summer semester 2005

Homology Modeling. Roberto Lins EPFL - summer semester 2005 Homology Modeling Roberto Lins EPFL - summer semester 2005 Disclaimer: course material is mainly taken from: P.E. Bourne & H Weissig, Structural Bioinformatics; C.A. Orengo, D.T. Jones & J.M. Thornton,

More information

The PRALINE online server: optimising progressive multiple alignment on the web

The PRALINE online server: optimising progressive multiple alignment on the web Computational Biology and Chemistry 27 (2003) 511 519 Software Note The PRALINE online server: optimising progressive multiple alignment on the web V.A. Simossis a,b, J. Heringa a, a Bioinformatics Unit,

More information

Multiple Sequence Alignment, Gunnar Klau, December 9, 2005, 17:

Multiple Sequence Alignment, Gunnar Klau, December 9, 2005, 17: Multiple Sequence Alignment, Gunnar Klau, December 9, 2005, 17:50 5001 5 Multiple Sequence Alignment The first part of this exposition is based on the following sources, which are recommended reading:

More information

Protein function prediction based on sequence analysis

Protein function prediction based on sequence analysis Performing sequence searches Post-Blast analysis, Using profiles and pattern-matching Protein function prediction based on sequence analysis Slides from a lecture on MOL204 - Applied Bioinformatics 18-Oct-2005

More information

Do Aligned Sequences Share the Same Fold?

Do Aligned Sequences Share the Same Fold? J. Mol. Biol. (1997) 273, 355±368 Do Aligned Sequences Share the Same Fold? Ruben A. Abagyan* and Serge Batalov The Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine Biochemistry Department NYU Medical Center

More information

Detecting unfolded regions in protein sequences. Anne Poupon Génomique Structurale de la Levure IBBMC Université Paris-Sud / CNRS France

Detecting unfolded regions in protein sequences. Anne Poupon Génomique Structurale de la Levure IBBMC Université Paris-Sud / CNRS France Detecting unfolded regions in protein sequences Anne Poupon Génomique Structurale de la Levure IBBMC Université Paris-Sud / CNRS France Large proteins and complexes: a domain approach Structural studies

More information

2 Dean C. Adams and Gavin J. P. Naylor the best three-dimensional ordination of the structure space is found through an eigen-decomposition (correspon

2 Dean C. Adams and Gavin J. P. Naylor the best three-dimensional ordination of the structure space is found through an eigen-decomposition (correspon A Comparison of Methods for Assessing the Structural Similarity of Proteins Dean C. Adams and Gavin J. P. Naylor? Dept. Zoology and Genetics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, U.S.A. 1 Introduction

More information

Sequence comparison: Score matrices. Genome 559: Introduction to Statistical and Computational Genomics Prof. James H. Thomas

Sequence comparison: Score matrices. Genome 559: Introduction to Statistical and Computational Genomics Prof. James H. Thomas Sequence comparison: Score matrices Genome 559: Introduction to Statistical and omputational Genomics Prof James H Thomas Informal inductive proof of best alignment path onsider the last step in the best

More information

Sequence Alignments. Dynamic programming approaches, scoring, and significance. Lucy Skrabanek ICB, WMC January 31, 2013

Sequence Alignments. Dynamic programming approaches, scoring, and significance. Lucy Skrabanek ICB, WMC January 31, 2013 Sequence Alignments Dynamic programming approaches, scoring, and significance Lucy Skrabanek ICB, WMC January 31, 213 Sequence alignment Compare two (or more) sequences to: Find regions of conservation

More information

Pairwise sequence alignments

Pairwise sequence alignments Pairwise sequence alignments Volker Flegel VI, October 2003 Page 1 Outline Introduction Definitions Biological context of pairwise alignments Computing of pairwise alignments Some programs VI, October

More information

Sequence comparison: Score matrices

Sequence comparison: Score matrices Sequence comparison: Score matrices http://facultywashingtonedu/jht/gs559_2013/ Genome 559: Introduction to Statistical and omputational Genomics Prof James H Thomas FYI - informal inductive proof of best

More information

Lecture 2, 5/12/2001: Local alignment the Smith-Waterman algorithm. Alignment scoring schemes and theory: substitution matrices and gap models

Lecture 2, 5/12/2001: Local alignment the Smith-Waterman algorithm. Alignment scoring schemes and theory: substitution matrices and gap models Lecture 2, 5/12/2001: Local alignment the Smith-Waterman algorithm Alignment scoring schemes and theory: substitution matrices and gap models 1 Local sequence alignments Local sequence alignments are necessary

More information

Domain-based computational approaches to understand the molecular basis of diseases

Domain-based computational approaches to understand the molecular basis of diseases Domain-based computational approaches to understand the molecular basis of diseases Dr. Maricel G. Kann Assistant Professor Dept of Biological Sciences UMBC http://bioinf.umbc.edu Research at Kann s Lab.

More information

CISC 889 Bioinformatics (Spring 2004) Sequence pairwise alignment (I)

CISC 889 Bioinformatics (Spring 2004) Sequence pairwise alignment (I) CISC 889 Bioinformatics (Spring 2004) Sequence pairwise alignment (I) Contents Alignment algorithms Needleman-Wunsch (global alignment) Smith-Waterman (local alignment) Heuristic algorithms FASTA BLAST

More information

HMM applications. Applications of HMMs. Gene finding with HMMs. Using the gene finder

HMM applications. Applications of HMMs. Gene finding with HMMs. Using the gene finder HMM applications Applications of HMMs Gene finding Pairwise alignment (pair HMMs) Characterizing protein families (profile HMMs) Predicting membrane proteins, and membrane protein topology Gene finding

More information

InDel 3-5. InDel 8-9. InDel 3-5. InDel 8-9. InDel InDel 8-9

InDel 3-5. InDel 8-9. InDel 3-5. InDel 8-9. InDel InDel 8-9 Lecture 5 Alignment I. Introduction. For sequence data, the process of generating an alignment establishes positional homologies; that is, alignment provides the identification of homologous phylogenetic

More information

Neural Networks for Protein Structure Prediction Brown, JMB CS 466 Saurabh Sinha

Neural Networks for Protein Structure Prediction Brown, JMB CS 466 Saurabh Sinha Neural Networks for Protein Structure Prediction Brown, JMB 1999 CS 466 Saurabh Sinha Outline Goal is to predict secondary structure of a protein from its sequence Artificial Neural Network used for this

More information

Building 3D models of proteins

Building 3D models of proteins Building 3D models of proteins Why make a structural model for your protein? The structure can provide clues to the function through structural similarity with other proteins With a structure it is easier

More information

Sequence comparison: Score matrices. Genome 559: Introduction to Statistical and Computational Genomics Prof. James H. Thomas

Sequence comparison: Score matrices. Genome 559: Introduction to Statistical and Computational Genomics Prof. James H. Thomas Sequence comparison: Score matrices Genome 559: Introduction to Statistical and omputational Genomics Prof James H Thomas FYI - informal inductive proof of best alignment path onsider the last step in

More information

Introduction to Comparative Protein Modeling. Chapter 4 Part I

Introduction to Comparative Protein Modeling. Chapter 4 Part I Introduction to Comparative Protein Modeling Chapter 4 Part I 1 Information on Proteins Each modeling study depends on the quality of the known experimental data. Basis of the model Search in the literature

More information

CONCEPT OF SEQUENCE COMPARISON. Natapol Pornputtapong 18 January 2018

CONCEPT OF SEQUENCE COMPARISON. Natapol Pornputtapong 18 January 2018 CONCEPT OF SEQUENCE COMPARISON Natapol Pornputtapong 18 January 2018 SEQUENCE ANALYSIS - A ROSETTA STONE OF LIFE Sequence analysis is the process of subjecting a DNA, RNA or peptide sequence to any of

More information

A New Similarity Measure among Protein Sequences

A New Similarity Measure among Protein Sequences A New Similarity Measure among Protein Sequences Kuen-Pin Wu, Hsin-Nan Lin, Ting-Yi Sung and Wen-Lian Hsu * Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan Abstract Protein sequence

More information

5. MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT BIOINFORMATICS COURSE MTAT

5. MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT BIOINFORMATICS COURSE MTAT 5. MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT BIOINFORMATICS COURSE MTAT.03.239 03.10.2012 ALIGNMENT Alignment is the task of locating equivalent regions of two or more sequences to maximize their similarity. Homology:

More information

Biochemistry 324 Bioinformatics. Pairwise sequence alignment

Biochemistry 324 Bioinformatics. Pairwise sequence alignment Biochemistry 324 Bioinformatics Pairwise sequence alignment How do we compare genes/proteins? When we have sequenced a genome, we try and identify the function of unknown genes by finding a similar gene

More information

Practical considerations of working with sequencing data

Practical considerations of working with sequencing data Practical considerations of working with sequencing data File Types Fastq ->aligner -> reference(genome) coordinates Coordinate files SAM/BAM most complete, contains all of the info in fastq and more!

More information

Pairwise sequence alignments. Vassilios Ioannidis (From Volker Flegel )

Pairwise sequence alignments. Vassilios Ioannidis (From Volker Flegel ) Pairwise sequence alignments Vassilios Ioannidis (From Volker Flegel ) Outline Introduction Definitions Biological context of pairwise alignments Computing of pairwise alignments Some programs Importance

More information

Multiple Sequence Alignments

Multiple Sequence Alignments Multiple Sequence Alignments...... Elements of Bioinformatics Spring, 2003 Tom Carter http://astarte.csustan.edu/ tom/ March, 2003 1 Sequence Alignments Often, we would like to make direct comparisons

More information

BIO 285/CSCI 285/MATH 285 Bioinformatics Programming Lecture 8 Pairwise Sequence Alignment 2 And Python Function Instructor: Lei Qian Fisk University

BIO 285/CSCI 285/MATH 285 Bioinformatics Programming Lecture 8 Pairwise Sequence Alignment 2 And Python Function Instructor: Lei Qian Fisk University BIO 285/CSCI 285/MATH 285 Bioinformatics Programming Lecture 8 Pairwise Sequence Alignment 2 And Python Function Instructor: Lei Qian Fisk University Measures of Sequence Similarity Alignment with dot

More information

Sequence Alignment Techniques and Their Uses

Sequence Alignment Techniques and Their Uses Sequence Alignment Techniques and Their Uses Sarah Fiorentino Since rapid sequencing technology and whole genomes sequencing, the amount of sequence information has grown exponentially. With all of this

More information

Biology Tutorial. Aarti Balasubramani Anusha Bharadwaj Massa Shoura Stefan Giovan

Biology Tutorial. Aarti Balasubramani Anusha Bharadwaj Massa Shoura Stefan Giovan Biology Tutorial Aarti Balasubramani Anusha Bharadwaj Massa Shoura Stefan Giovan Viruses A T4 bacteriophage injecting DNA into a cell. Influenza A virus Electron micrograph of HIV. Cone-shaped cores are

More information

Effects of Gap Open and Gap Extension Penalties

Effects of Gap Open and Gap Extension Penalties Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive All Faculty Publications 200-10-01 Effects of Gap Open and Gap Extension Penalties Hyrum Carroll hyrumcarroll@gmail.com Mark J. Clement clement@cs.byu.edu See

More information

Bioinformatics (GLOBEX, Summer 2015) Pairwise sequence alignment

Bioinformatics (GLOBEX, Summer 2015) Pairwise sequence alignment Bioinformatics (GLOBEX, Summer 2015) Pairwise sequence alignment Substitution score matrices, PAM, BLOSUM Needleman-Wunsch algorithm (Global) Smith-Waterman algorithm (Local) BLAST (local, heuristic) E-value

More information

Multiple Sequence Alignment

Multiple Sequence Alignment Multiple equence lignment Four ami Khuri Dept of omputer cience an José tate University Multiple equence lignment v Progressive lignment v Guide Tree v lustalw v Toffee v Muscle v MFFT * 20 * 0 * 60 *

More information

BLAST. Varieties of BLAST

BLAST. Varieties of BLAST BLAST Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (1990) Altschul, Gish, Miller, Myers, & Lipman Uses short-cuts or heuristics to improve search speed Like speed-reading, does not examine every nucleotide of database

More information

Supporting Text 1. Comparison of GRoSS sequence alignment to HMM-HMM and GPCRDB

Supporting Text 1. Comparison of GRoSS sequence alignment to HMM-HMM and GPCRDB Structure-Based Sequence Alignment of the Transmembrane Domains of All Human GPCRs: Phylogenetic, Structural and Functional Implications, Cvicek et al. Supporting Text 1 Here we compare the GRoSS alignment

More information

Single alignment: Substitution Matrix. 16 march 2017

Single alignment: Substitution Matrix. 16 march 2017 Single alignment: Substitution Matrix 16 march 2017 BLOSUM Matrix BLOSUM Matrix [2] (Blocks Amino Acid Substitution Matrices ) It is based on the amino acids substitutions observed in ~2000 conserved block

More information

Advanced topics in bioinformatics

Advanced topics in bioinformatics Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute of Science Advanced topics in bioinformatics Shmuel Pietrokovski & Eitan Rubin Spring 2003 Course WWW site: http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/courses/atib

More information

Information content of sets of biological sequences revisited

Information content of sets of biological sequences revisited Information content of sets of biological sequences revisited Alessandra Carbone and Stefan Engelen Génomique Analytique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, INSERM UMRS511, 91, Bd de l Hôpital, 75013 Paris,

More information

3. SEQUENCE ANALYSIS BIOINFORMATICS COURSE MTAT

3. SEQUENCE ANALYSIS BIOINFORMATICS COURSE MTAT 3. SEQUENCE ANALYSIS BIOINFORMATICS COURSE MTAT.03.239 25.09.2012 SEQUENCE ANALYSIS IS IMPORTANT FOR... Prediction of function Gene finding the process of identifying the regions of genomic DNA that encode

More information

Introduction to Evolutionary Concepts

Introduction to Evolutionary Concepts Introduction to Evolutionary Concepts and VMD/MultiSeq - Part I Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten Dept. Chemistry, Beckman Institute, Biophysics, Institute of Genomics Biology, & Physics NIH Workshop 2009 VMD/MultiSeq

More information

Protein Sequence Alignment and Database Scanning

Protein Sequence Alignment and Database Scanning Protein Sequence Alignment and Database Scanning Geoffrey J. Barton Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics University of Oxford Rex Richards Building South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QU U.K. Tel: 0865-275368 Fax:

More information

114 Grundlagen der Bioinformatik, SS 09, D. Huson, July 6, 2009

114 Grundlagen der Bioinformatik, SS 09, D. Huson, July 6, 2009 114 Grundlagen der Bioinformatik, SS 09, D. Huson, July 6, 2009 9 Protein tertiary structure Sources for this chapter, which are all recommended reading: D.W. Mount. Bioinformatics: Sequences and Genome

More information

Introduction to Bioinformatics

Introduction to Bioinformatics Introduction to Bioinformatics Jianlin Cheng, PhD Department of Computer Science Informatics Institute 2011 Topics Introduction Biological Sequence Alignment and Database Search Analysis of gene expression

More information

In-Depth Assessment of Local Sequence Alignment

In-Depth Assessment of Local Sequence Alignment 2012 International Conference on Environment Science and Engieering IPCBEE vol.3 2(2012) (2012)IACSIT Press, Singapoore In-Depth Assessment of Local Sequence Alignment Atoosa Ghahremani and Mahmood A.

More information

Some Problems from Enzyme Families

Some Problems from Enzyme Families Some Problems from Enzyme Families Greg Butler Department of Computer Science Concordia University, Montreal www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/gregb gregb@cs.concordia.ca Abstract I will discuss some problems

More information

Computational Biology From The Perspective Of A Physical Scientist

Computational Biology From The Perspective Of A Physical Scientist Computational Biology From The Perspective Of A Physical Scientist Dr. Arthur Dong PP1@TUM 26 November 2013 Bioinformatics Education Curriculum Math, Physics, Computer Science (Statistics and Programming)

More information

Probalign: Multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities

Probalign: Multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities Sequence Analysis Probalign: Multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities Usman Roshan 1* and Dennis R. Livesay 2 1 Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute

More information

Phylogenies Scores for Exhaustive Maximum Likelihood and Parsimony Scores Searches

Phylogenies Scores for Exhaustive Maximum Likelihood and Parsimony Scores Searches Int. J. Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Vol. x, No. x, xxxx Phylogenies Scores for Exhaustive Maximum Likelihood and s Searches Hyrum D. Carroll, Perry G. Ridge, Mark J. Clement, Quinn O. Snell

More information

Bioinformatics. Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry 447b3 / 747b3. Class 3, 1/19/98. Mark Gerstein. Yale University

Bioinformatics. Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry 447b3 / 747b3. Class 3, 1/19/98. Mark Gerstein. Yale University Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry 447b3 / 747b3 Bioinformatics Mark Gerstein Class 3, 1/19/98 Yale University 1 Aligning Text Strings Raw Data??? T C A T G C A T T G 2 matches, 0 gaps T C A T G C A T

More information

Genomics and bioinformatics summary. Finding genes -- computer searches

Genomics and bioinformatics summary. Finding genes -- computer searches Genomics and bioinformatics summary 1. Gene finding: computer searches, cdnas, ESTs, 2. Microarrays 3. Use BLAST to find homologous sequences 4. Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) 5. Trees quantify sequence

More information

CISC 636 Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (Fall 2016)

CISC 636 Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (Fall 2016) CISC 636 Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (Fall 2016) Predicting Protein-Protein Interactions CISC636, F16, Lec22, Liao 1 Background Proteins do not function as isolated entities. Protein-Protein

More information

Multiple sequence alignment

Multiple sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment: today s goals to define what a multiple sequence alignment is and how it is generated; to describe profile HMMs to introduce databases of multiple

More information

Local Alignment Statistics

Local Alignment Statistics Local Alignment Statistics Stephen Altschul National Center for Biotechnology Information National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD Central Issues in Biological Sequence Comparison

More information

First generation sequencing and pairwise alignment (High-tech, not high throughput) Analysis of Biological Sequences

First generation sequencing and pairwise alignment (High-tech, not high throughput) Analysis of Biological Sequences First generation sequencing and pairwise alignment (High-tech, not high throughput) Analysis of Biological Sequences 140.638 where do sequences come from? DNA is not hard to extract (getting DNA from a

More information

Protein sequence alignment with family-specific amino acid similarity matrices

Protein sequence alignment with family-specific amino acid similarity matrices TECHNICAL NOTE Open Access Protein sequence alignment with family-specific amino acid similarity matrices Igor B Kuznetsov Abstract Background: Alignment of amino acid sequences by means of dynamic programming

More information

Sequence and Structure Alignment Z. Luthey-Schulten, UIUC Pittsburgh, 2006 VMD 1.8.5

Sequence and Structure Alignment Z. Luthey-Schulten, UIUC Pittsburgh, 2006 VMD 1.8.5 Sequence and Structure Alignment Z. Luthey-Schulten, UIUC Pittsburgh, 2006 VMD 1.8.5 Why Look at More Than One Sequence? 1. Multiple Sequence Alignment shows patterns of conservation 2. What and how many

More information

Tools and Algorithms in Bioinformatics

Tools and Algorithms in Bioinformatics Tools and Algorithms in Bioinformatics GCBA815, Fall 2015 Week-4 BLAST Algorithm Continued Multiple Sequence Alignment Babu Guda, Ph.D. Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy Bioinformatics and

More information

An Introduction to Sequence Similarity ( Homology ) Searching

An Introduction to Sequence Similarity ( Homology ) Searching An Introduction to Sequence Similarity ( Homology ) Searching Gary D. Stormo 1 UNIT 3.1 1 Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri ABSTRACT Homologous sequences usually have the same,

More information

Scoring Matrices. Shifra Ben Dor Irit Orr

Scoring Matrices. Shifra Ben Dor Irit Orr Scoring Matrices Shifra Ben Dor Irit Orr Scoring matrices Sequence alignment and database searching programs compare sequences to each other as a series of characters. All algorithms (programs) for comparison

More information

Phylogenetic inference

Phylogenetic inference Phylogenetic inference Bas E. Dutilh Systems Biology: Bioinformatic Data Analysis Utrecht University, March 7 th 016 After this lecture, you can discuss (dis-) advantages of different information types

More information

Bioinformatics for Computer Scientists (Part 2 Sequence Alignment) Sepp Hochreiter

Bioinformatics for Computer Scientists (Part 2 Sequence Alignment) Sepp Hochreiter Bioinformatics for Computer Scientists (Part 2 Sequence Alignment) Institute of Bioinformatics Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Sequence Alignment 2. Sequence Alignment Sequence Alignment 2.1

More information

Pairwise sequence alignment

Pairwise sequence alignment Department of Evolutionary Biology Example Alignment between very similar human alpha- and beta globins: GSAQVKGHGKKVADALTNAVAHVDDMPNALSALSDLHAHKL G+ +VK+HGKKV A+++++AH+D++ +++++LS+LH KL GNPKVKAHGKKVLGAFSDGLAHLDNLKGTFATLSELHCDKL

More information

Tools and Algorithms in Bioinformatics

Tools and Algorithms in Bioinformatics Tools and Algorithms in Bioinformatics GCBA815, Fall 2013 Week3: Blast Algorithm, theory and practice Babu Guda, Ph.D. Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

More information

Lecture 5,6 Local sequence alignment

Lecture 5,6 Local sequence alignment Lecture 5,6 Local sequence alignment Chapter 6 in Jones and Pevzner Fall 2018 September 4,6, 2018 Evolution as a tool for biological insight Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution

More information

Significant Improvement in Accuracy of Multiple Protein Sequence Alignments by Iterative Refinement as Assessed by Reference to Structural Alignments

Significant Improvement in Accuracy of Multiple Protein Sequence Alignments by Iterative Refinement as Assessed by Reference to Structural Alignments J. Mol. Biol. (1996) 264, 823 838 Significant Improvement in Accuracy of Multiple Protein Sequence Alignments by Iterative Refinement as Assessed by Reference to Structural Alignments Osamu Gotoh Department

More information

Lecture 4: Evolutionary Models and Substitution Matrices (PAM and BLOSUM)

Lecture 4: Evolutionary Models and Substitution Matrices (PAM and BLOSUM) Bioinformatics II Probability and Statistics Universität Zürich and ETH Zürich Spring Semester 2009 Lecture 4: Evolutionary Models and Substitution Matrices (PAM and BLOSUM) Dr Fraser Daly adapted from

More information

Biologically significant sequence alignments using Boltzmann probabilities

Biologically significant sequence alignments using Boltzmann probabilities Biologically significant sequence alignments using Boltzmann probabilities P. Clote Department of Biology, Boston College Gasson Hall 416, Chestnut Hill MA 02467 clote@bc.edu May 7, 2003 Abstract In this

More information

Introduction to protein alignments

Introduction to protein alignments Introduction to protein alignments Comparative Analysis of Proteins Experimental evidence from one or more proteins can be used to infer function of related protein(s). Gene A Gene X Protein A compare

More information

Sequence Analysis, '18 -- lecture 9. Families and superfamilies. Sequence weights. Profiles. Logos. Building a representative model for a gene.

Sequence Analysis, '18 -- lecture 9. Families and superfamilies. Sequence weights. Profiles. Logos. Building a representative model for a gene. Sequence Analysis, '18 -- lecture 9 Families and superfamilies. Sequence weights. Profiles. Logos. Building a representative model for a gene. How can I represent thousands of homolog sequences in a compact

More information

... and searches for related sequences probably make up the vast bulk of bioinformatics activities.

... and searches for related sequences probably make up the vast bulk of bioinformatics activities. 1 2 ... and searches for related sequences probably make up the vast bulk of bioinformatics activities. 3 The terms homology and similarity are often confused and used incorrectly. Homology is a quality.

More information

BLAST Database Searching. BME 110: CompBio Tools Todd Lowe April 8, 2010

BLAST Database Searching. BME 110: CompBio Tools Todd Lowe April 8, 2010 BLAST Database Searching BME 110: CompBio Tools Todd Lowe April 8, 2010 Admin Reading: Read chapter 7, and the NCBI Blast Guide and tutorial http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/why.shtml Read Chapter 8 for

More information

CSE 549: Computational Biology. Substitution Matrices

CSE 549: Computational Biology. Substitution Matrices CSE 9: Computational Biology Substitution Matrices How should we score alignments So far, we ve looked at arbitrary schemes for scoring mutations. How can we assign scores in a more meaningful way? Are

More information

Tutorial 4 Substitution matrices and PSI-BLAST

Tutorial 4 Substitution matrices and PSI-BLAST Tutorial 4 Substitution matrices and PSI-BLAST 1 Agenda Substitution Matrices PAM - Point Accepted Mutations BLOSUM - Blocks Substitution Matrix PSI-BLAST Cool story of the day: Why should we care about

More information

Multiple structure alignment with mstali

Multiple structure alignment with mstali Multiple structure alignment with mstali Shealy and Valafar Shealy and Valafar BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13:105 Shealy and Valafar BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13:105 SOFTWARE Open Access Multiple structure

More information

Similarity or Identity? When are molecules similar?

Similarity or Identity? When are molecules similar? Similarity or Identity? When are molecules similar? Mapping Identity A -> A T -> T G -> G C -> C or Leu -> Leu Pro -> Pro Arg -> Arg Phe -> Phe etc If we map similarity using identity, how similar are

More information

Bootstrapping and Normalization for Enhanced Evaluations of Pairwise Sequence Comparison

Bootstrapping and Normalization for Enhanced Evaluations of Pairwise Sequence Comparison Bootstrapping and Normalization for Enhanced Evaluations of Pairwise Sequence Comparison RICHARD E. GREEN AND STEVEN E. BRENNER Invited Paper The exponentially growing library of known protein sequences

More information