The revelations made from the alignment of sequences of five homologous proteins. Introduction: The alignment of three or more than three biological sequences, which may be DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), or protein known as multiple sequence alignment. The alignment methods that are mainly used are iterative methods, progressive alignment construction, hidden markov models and consensus methods.

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The revelations made from the alignment of sequences of five homologous proteins.

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The alignment of three or more than three biological sequences, which may be DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), or protein known as multiple sequence alignment. The alignment methods that are mainly used are iterative methods, progressive alignment construction, hidden markov models and consensus methods.

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