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Mubarak Saif 1 * , Rosni Abdullah 2 , Mohd. Adib Hj. Omar 3 , Abdulghani Ali Ahmed 4 , Nurul Aswa Omar 5 , Salama A. Mostafa 6
Doi: https://doi.org/10.54216/FPA.170201
Four kinds of smaller molecules known as ribonucleotide bases-adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and uracil (U) combine to form the linear molecule known as ribonucleic acid (RNA). Aligning multiple sequences is a fundamental task in bioinformatics. This paper studies the correlation of different objective functions applying to RNA multiple sequence alignment (MSA) fusion generated by the Harmony search-based method. Experiments are performed on the BRAliBase dataset containing different numbers of test groups. The correlation of the alignment score and the quality obtained is compared against coffee, sum-of-pairs (SP), weight sum-of-pairs (WSP), NorMD, and MstatX. The results indicate that COFFEE and SP objective functions achieved a correlation coefficient (R²) of 0.96 and 0.92, respectively, when compared to the reference alignments, demonstrating their effectiveness in producing high-quality alignments. In addition, the sum-of-pairs takes less time than the COFFEE objective function for the same number of iterations on the same RNA benchmark.
Objective function , Harmony search , Ribonucleic acid (RNA) , Multiple sequence alignment (MSA)
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