Object Details Author Mount, David W Contents Historical introduction and overview -- Collecting and storing sequences in the laboratory -- Alignment of pairs of sequences -- Introduction to ...

Once we're done filling in the matrix, the score of the optimal alignment of the complete sequences is the last score we calculate, S(M, N). We still don't know the optimal alignment itself, though.

The process starts with DNA sequences from some of the trillions of microbes in the human gut. ... [multiple-sequence alignment]," McGill University researchers wrote in a 2012 paper on Phylo.