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Table 1 Balibase results. Categories ("Cat.") refer to the five Balibase categories. Average 1 is the average sum-of-pairs score over all 141 alignments, while average 2 is the average across all five categories.

From: Kalign – an accurate and fast multiple sequence alignment algorithm

Method

CPU time (sec.)

Cat. 1

Cat. 2

Cat. 3

Cat. 4

Cat. 5

Average 1

Average 2

Kalign

27

0.85

0.92

0.79

0.88

0.92

0.86

0.87

ClustalW

75

0.85

0.93

0.75

0.85

0.86

0.86

0.85

Muscle

75

0.88

0.93

0.82

0.88

0.97

0.89

0.89

Mafft

100

0.86

0.92

0.78

0.91

0.96

0.88

0.89

Dialign

234

0.80

0.89

0.68

0.90

0.94

0.83

0.84

T-Coffee

1286

0.86

0.93

0.78

0.92

0.96

0.88

0.89