Several automatic phonetic alignment tools have been proposed in the literature. They usually rely on pre-trained speaker-independent models to align new corpora. Their drawback is that they cover a very limited number of languages and might not perform properly for different speaking styles. This paper presents a new tool for automatic phonetic alignment available online. Its specificity is th...

Alignment-based programs are valuable tools for finding potential homologs in genome sequences. Previously, it has been shown that partition function posterior probabilities attuned to local alignment achieve a high accuracy in identifying distantly similar non-coding RNA sequences that are hidden in a large genome. Here, we present an online implementation of that alignment algorithm based on ...

Strategic alignment, combined to strategic planning, is an important management tool. For this reason new approaches to strategic alignment promotion could help high-level management decisions and affect the organizational performance. This study of exploratory nature aims to develop an operational model of strategic alignment between business strategies and goals and information technology str...

MOTIVATION We consider the problem of multiple alignment of protein sequences with the goal of achieving a large SP (Sum-of-Pairs) score. RESULTS We introduce a new graph-based method. We name our method QOMA (Quasi-Optimal Multiple Alignment). QOMA starts with an initial alignment. It represents this alignment using a K-partite graph. It then improves the SP score of the initial alignment th...

Protein structure alignment has become an important strategy by which to identify evolutionary relationships between protein sequences. Several alignment tools are currently available for online comparison of protein structures. In this paper, we propose a parallel protein structure alignment service based on the Hadoop distribution framework. This service includes a protein structure alignment...

Diabetes is an endrocinological condition that affects millions of people and can cause myriad health complications. Numerous bioinformatics tools are being used in diabetes research. Here we look at the types of tools commonly used by researchers both by category of tool e.g. sequence alignment, microarray analysis and specific tools mentioned e.g. GCG Pileup, ClustalW, etc. to get an overall ...

Currently available alignment tools and procedures for marking-up alignments overlook non-contiguous multiword units for being too complex within the bounds of the proposed alignment methodologies. This paper presents the CLUE-Aligner (Cross-Language Unit Elicitation Aligner), a web alignment tool designed for manual annotation of pairs of paraphrastic and translation units, representing both c...

Accurate tools for multiple sequence alignment (MSA) are essential for comparative studies of the function and structure of biological sequences. However, it is very challenging to develop a computationally efficient algorithm that can consistently predict accurate alignments for various types of sequence sets. In this article, we introduce PicXAA (Probabilistic Maximum Accuracy Alignment), a p...

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