MOSAL: Software tools for multiobjective sequence alignment

Abstract

Multiobjective sequence alignment brings the advantage of providing a set of alignments that represent the trade-off between performing insertion/deletions and matching symbols from both sequences. Each of these alignments provide a potential explanation of the relationship between the sequences. We introduce MOSAL, a software tool that provides an open-source implementation and an on-line application for multiobjective pairwise sequence alignment. © 2014 Paquete et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.