PASTA: Ultra-Large Multiple Sequence Alignment for Nucleotide and Amino-Acid Sequences.
Title | PASTA: Ultra-Large Multiple Sequence Alignment for Nucleotide and Amino-Acid Sequences. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | Mirarab, S, Nguyen, N, Guo, S, San Wang, L-, Kim, J, Warnow, T |
Journal | J Comput Biol |
Volume | 22 |
Issue | 5 |
Pagination | 377-86 |
Date Published | 2015 May |
ISSN | 1557-8666 |
Keywords | Algorithms, Amino Acid Sequence, Bacteria, Base Sequence, Computer Simulation, Datasets as Topic, Evolution, Molecular, Metagenomics, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Plants, Sequence Alignment, Software |
Abstract | We introduce PASTA, a new multiple sequence alignment algorithm. PASTA uses a new technique to produce an alignment given a guide tree that enables it to be both highly scalable and very accurate. We present a study on biological and simulated data with up to 200,000 sequences, showing that PASTA produces highly accurate alignments, improving on the accuracy and scalability of the leading alignment methods (including SATé). We also show that trees estimated on PASTA alignments are highly accurate--slightly better than SATé trees, but with substantial improvements relative to other methods. Finally, PASTA is faster than SATé, highly parallelizable, and requires relatively little memory. |
DOI | 10.1089/cmb.2014.0156 |
Alternate Journal | J. Comput. Biol. |
PubMed ID | 25549288 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC4424971 |
Grant List | R01-GM099962 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States R01 GM099962 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States T32-HG000046 / HG / NHGRI NIH HHS / United States U24-AG041689 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States / / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / United States |