Motivation: A tool that simultaneously aligns multiple protein sequences, automatically utilizes information about protein domains, and has a good compromise between speed and accuracy will have practical advantages over current tools. Results: We describe COBALT, a constraint based alignment tool that implements a general framework for multiple alignment of protein sequences. COBALT finds a collection of pairwise constraints derived from database searches, sequence similarity and user input, combines these pairwise constraints, and then incorporates them into a progressive multiple alignment. We show that using constraints derived from the conserved domain database (CDD) and PROSITE protein-motif database improves COBALT's alignment quality. We also show that COBALT has reasonable runtime performance and alignment accuracy comparable to or exceeding that of other tools for a broad range of problems. ©The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
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Papadopoulos, J. S., & Agarwala, R. (2007). COBALT: Constraint-based alignment tool for multiple protein sequences. Bioinformatics, 23(9), 1073–1079. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btm076
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