How to Interpret a Sequence Alignment
This text introduces how one can interpret biological sequence alignments. An alignment of the human proteins H-RAS, N-RAS, and K-RAS is used as the specific example throughout, but the same general principles hold true for all DNA, RNA, and protein alignments.
Topics
- sequence
- alignment
- conserved
- conservative
- semi-conservative
- non-conservative
- DNA
- RNA
- protein
- nucleotide
- amino acid
- mutation
- substitution
- BLOSUM