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Table 1 Performance of seven protein multi-alignment programs on the IRMBASE 1.0 database of benchmark alignments. Percentage values are sum-of-pairs scores, i.e. the percentage of correctly aligned residue pairs of ROSE motifs contained in the IRMBASE sequence families.

From: DIALIGN-T: An improved algorithm for segment-based multiple sequence alignment

Method

ref1

ref2

ref3

Total

DIALIGN-T

94.07%

92.69%

92.68%

93.14%

DIALIGN 2.2

92.26%

92.72%

91.87%

92.28%

T-COFFEE 1.37

91.18%

85.61%

87.81%

88.20%

PROBCONS 1.09

66.74%

68.30%

77.92%

70.98%

POA V2

90.26%

43.61%

36.85%

56.91%

MUSCLE 3.5

36.16%

37.84%

52.30%

42.10%

CLUSTAL W 1.83

8.02%

12.69%

20.16%

13.62%