A feature of the dynamic programming algorithm is that the alignments obtained depend on the choice of a scoring system for comparing character pairs and penalty scores for gaps.

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In bioinformatics, sequence alignment is a way of arranging DNA, RNA, or protein sequences to identify regions of similarity. These similarities may be a result of functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships between the sequences. Topics include:  Protein Motifs and Domain Prediction, Motif and Domain Databases Using Regular Expressions, Motif and Domain Databases Using Statistical Models, Protein Family Databases, Global Sequence Alignment, Local Sequence Alignment, Motif Discovery in Unaligned Sequences, Dot Matrix Sequence Comparison, Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Sequence... Show more

A feature of the dynamic programming algorithm is that the alignments obtained depend on the choice of a scoring system for comparing character pairs and penalty scores for gaps.