IBP-Litp
1996/Th/09:
THÈSE de DOCTORAT de l'UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 6 Litp /
Litp research reports
155 pages - Décembre/December 1996 -
French document.
PostScript : Ko /Kb
Titre / Title: Comparaison de Séquences Biologiques
Abstract : We report in this thesis on our work on alignment of sequences, particularly on multiple alignment of biological sequences. Our algorithms work in two steps: first compatible blocks (alignments of occurrences of factors without gaps) are computed on the sequences, then the sequences are aligned between the blocks.
Our strategy for the selection of blocks is greedy but cautious. We are interested particularly in the computation of blocks which do not necessarily concern all the sequences to align. To compute efficiently these blocks, we have defined the structure of hybrid graph, in which when a path relie two occurrences, it means that these occurrences can be in a block compatible with the blocks already computed. Adding a new block means inserting edges in the hybrid graph. We describe a new incremental algorithm that allows to keep the transitive closure of the relation described by the hybrid graph after the insertion of a new block.
The observation of actual alignments has lead us to formulate assumptions wich allow us to align efficiently the sequences between the blocks, using a dynamic programming algorithm.
We show in real data the efficiency (in computation time and alignments quality) of our algorithms comparing to two programs CLUSTAL W and TREEALIGN.
Publications internes Litp 1996 / Litp research reports 1996