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In this paper we present a branch and bound algorithm for local gapless multiple sequence alignment (motif alignment) and its implementation. This is the first program to exploit the fact that the motif alignment problem is easier for short motifs. Indeed for a fixed motif width the running time of the algorithm is asymptotically linear in the size of the input. We tested the performance of the program on a dataset of 300 E. coli promoter sequences. For a motif width of 4 the optimal alignment of the entire set of sequences can be found. For the more natural motif width of 6 the program can align 19 sequences of length 100; more than twice the number of sequences which can be aligned by the best previous exact algorithm. The algorithm can relax the constraint of requiring each sequence to be aligned, and align 100 of the 300 promoter sequences with a motif width of 6. We also compare the effectiveness of the Gibbs sampling and beam search heuristics on this problem and show that in some cases our branch and bound algorithm can find the optimal solution, with proof of optimality, when those heuristics fail to find the optimal solution.
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Horton, P. (2000). Tsukuba BB: A Branch and Bound Algorithm for Local Multiple Sequence Alignment. In: Giancarlo, R., Sankoff, D. (eds) Combinatorial Pattern Matching. CPM 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1848. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45123-4_9
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