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Table 5 Frequencies of errors of different types in MSAs among 15 mammals

From: Characterization of multiple sequence alignment errors using complete-likelihood score and position-shift map

Error type

MAFFT (E-INS-1)

(Percent)

MAFFT (E-INS-i)

(Percent)

Prank (Best-fit)

(Percent)

Shift

118,707

(38.59 %)

130,029

(38.31 %)

199,756

(55.21 %)

Merge

6344

(2.06 %)

7832

(2.31%)

7026

(1.94 %)

Purge

6730

(2.19 %)

7954

(2.34 %)

5247

(1.45 %)

Split

18

(0.006 %)

5

(0.001 %)

1830

(0.51 %)

Ex-nihilo

1

(0.000 %)

0

(0 %)

138

(0.04 %)

v-Merge a

1476

(0.48 %)

1391

(0.41 %)

2156

(0.60 %)

v-Split b

190

(0.06 %)

56

(0.02 %)

598

(0.17 %)

CII c

3131

(1.02 %)

4992

(1.48 %)

309

(0.09 %)

iCII d

5315

(1.73%)

9150

(2.70 %)

141

(0.04 %)

Others e

1311

(0.43 %)

1527

(0.45 %)

2225

(0.62 %)

Mixture f

29,385

(9.55 %)

34,288

(10.10 %)

34,151

(9.44 %)

(Paired) g

(11,813)

(3.84 %)

(13,193)

(3.89 %)

(14,718)

(4.07 %)

Complex h

135,026

(43.89 %)

142,219

(41.90 %)

108,237

(29.92 %)

Total

307,634

(100 %)

339,446

(100 %)

361,814

(100 %)

  1. The same note and footnotes apply as those for Table 4