The Basics of Sequence Alignment
Have you ever wondered how we determine whether different species are closely related? One of the most common ways to do this is to perform a sequence alignment. This infographic explores the basics of sequence alignment and how it can be used to examine evolutionary relationships between species.
Topics
- Sequence alignment
- multiple sequence alignment
- evolutionary relatedness
- relatedness
- evolutionary relationship
- sequence
- nucleic acid
- DNA
- RNA
- protein
- sequence similarity
- sequence identity
- beta-globin
- sequence comparison
- rhesus monkey
- gibbon
- human