Figure 2From: MUSCLE: a multiple sequence alignment method with reduced time and space complexityProfile-profile alignment. Two profiles (multiple sequence alignments) X and Y are aligned to each other such that columns from X and Y are preserved in the result. Columns of indels (gray background) are inserted as needed in order to align the columns to each other. The score for aligning a pair of columns is determined by the profile function, which should assign a high score to pairs of columns containing similar amino acids.Back to article page