A New Quantum Cuckoo Search Algorithm for Multiple Sequence Alignment

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is one of the major problems that can be encountered in the bioinformatics field. MSA consists in aligning a set of biological sequences to extract the similarities between them. Unfortunately, this problem has been shown to be NP-hard. In this article, a new algori...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kartous Widad, Layeb Abdesslem, Chikhi Salim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2014-09-01
Series:Journal of Intelligent Systems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jisys-2013-0052