Re: unwanted gap in alignments
Andreas Prlic <[email protected]>
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looks a bit like an end-gap issue to me. I think the global alignment algorithm does not penalize end gaps. Try a local alignment (smith waterman) instead. Andreas On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Khalil El Mazouari <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am testing the PSA and MSA examples from Cookbook3. > > Sometimes, gaps were introduced in "unwanted" places in the alignments. Ex. below: > > EVQLQQSGAELVKPGASVKLSCTASGFNIKDTYMHWVKQRPEKGLEWIGRIDPASGNTKYDPKFQDKATITADTSSNTAYLQLSSLTSEDTAVYYCAGYDYGNFDYWGQGTTLTVSS > EVQLQQSGAELVKPGASVKLSCTASGFNIKDTYMHWVKQRPEQGLEWIGRIDPANGNTKYDPKFQGKATITADTSSNTAYLQLSSLTSEDTAVYYCA-------------------R > > expected PSA was: > EVQLQQSGAELVKPGASVKLSCTASGFNIKDTYMHWVKQRPEKGLEWIGRIDPASGNTKYDPKFQDKATITADTSSNTAYLQLSSLTSEDTAVYYCAGYDYGNFDYWGQGTTLTVSS > EVQLQQSGAELVKPGASVKLSCTASGFNIKDTYMHWVKQRPEQGLEWIGRIDPANGNTKYDPKFQGKATITADTSSNTAYLQLSSLTSEDTAVYYCAR------------------- > > > the same for MSA > DVQLVESGGGLVKPGGSLRLSCAASGFTFSTAWMKWVRQAPGKGLEWVVWRVEQVVEKAFANSVNGRFTISRNDSKNTLYLQMISVTPZBTAVYYCARVVVSTSMDVWGQGTPVT > EVQLVESGGGLVQPGGSLKLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQASGKGLEWV-----------------GRFTISRDDSKNTAYLQMNSLKTEDTAVYYCTR----------------- > EVQLVESGGGLVQPGGSLRLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQAPGKGLEWV-----------------GRFTISRDDSKNSLYLQMNSLKTEDTAVYYCAR----------------- > QVQLVESGGGVVQPGRSLRLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQAPGKGLEWVA-----------------RFTISRDNSKNTLYLQMNSLRAEDTAVYYCAR----------------- > QVQLVESGGGVVQPGRSLRLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQAPGKGLEWVA-----------------RFTISRDNSKNTLYLQMNSLRAEDTAVYYCAR----------------- > > expected MSA > DVQLVESGGGLVKPGGSLRLSCAASGFTFSTAWMKWVRQAPGKGLEWVVWRVEQVVEKAFANSVNGRFTISRNDSKNTLYLQMISVTPZBTAVYYCARVVVSTSMDVWGQGTPVT > EVQLVESGGGLVQPGGSLKLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQASGKGLEWVG-----------------RFTISRDDSKNTAYLQMNSLKTEDTAVYYCTR----------------- > EVQLVESGGGLVQPGGSLRLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQAPGKGLEWVG-----------------RFTISRDDSKNSLYLQMNSLKTEDTAVYYCAR----------------- > QVQLVESGGGVVQPGRSLRLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQAPGKGLEWVA-----------------RFTISRDNSKNTLYLQMNSLRAEDTAVYYCAR----------------- > QVQLVESGGGVVQPGRSLRLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQAPGKGLEWVA-----------------RFTISRDNSKNTLYLQMNSLRAEDTAVYYCAR----------------- > > > I have tested different gop/gep and LOCAL/GLOBAL PSA . No success! > > How can I force or avoid the gap creation at specific positions? > > Many thanks. > > Khalil > _______________________________________________ > Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l > _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l