Question

Match-Box compares segments of some of the nine residues of possible Pair wise alignments.

(a) True

(b) False

I have been asked this question in class test.

My question is taken from Heuristic Algorithms in section Multiple Sequence Alignment of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Correct answer is (b) False

The best I can explain: Match-Box compares segments of every nine residues of all possible pair wise alignments. It is a web-based server that also aims to identify conserved blocks (or boxes) among sequences. The program compares segments of every nine residues of all possible pair wise alignments. If the similarity of particular segments is above a certain threshold across all sequences, they are used as an anchor to assemble multiple alignments; residues between blocks are unaligned.