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Alignment Definition:

  • In the comparison of gene, RNA, and protein sequences, the arrangement of sequences such that a base-by-base (or amino acid by amino acid) comparison can be made and used to calculate the degree of similarity between sequences.

    Prescott's Microbiology 9th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton



Alignment Notes:

Alignment or sequence alignment is a technique to arrange the DNA, RNA or protein sequences so that similar regions can be identified. The degree of similarity can be calculated due to the presence of evolutionary, structural or functional relationships among the sequences.

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