T-Coffee: A novel method for fast and accurate multiple sequence alignment.

@article{Notredame2000TCoffeeAN,
  title={T-Coffee: A novel method for fast and accurate multiple sequence alignment.},
  author={C. Notredame and Desmond G. Higgins and Jaap Heringa},
  journal={Journal of molecular biology},
  year={2000},
  volume={302 1},
  pages={
          205-17
        }
}
We describe a new method (T-Coffee) for multiple sequence alignment that provides a dramatic improvement in accuracy with a modest sacrifice in speed as compared to the most commonly used alternatives. [] Key Result The resulting alignments are significantly more reliable, as determined by comparison with a set of 141 test cases, than any of the popular alternatives that we tried. The improvement, especially clear with the more difficult test cases, is always visible, regardless of the phylogenetic spread of…
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