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by biophysboy 193 days ago
My favorite application of the Fourier transform is converting convolution into pointwise multiplication. This is used to speed up multiple sequence alignment in bioinformatics.
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squidgyhead 192 days ago
What is the bioinformatic application? Could you point me towards some programs that use this?
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biophysboy 191 days ago
I was thinking about mafft in particular. You should know though that there are many different MSA tools out there.
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