Bioinformatics sequence analysis problem
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Calculate the dynamic programming matrix and an optimal alignment for the DNA sequences GAATTC and GATTA, scoring +2 for a match, and -1 for a mismatch, and with a linear gap penalty of d = 2.
Please contact me if you need any more information. The textbook that we are using: "Biological sequence analysis: Probabilistic models of proteins and nucleic acids" By R. Durbin et al.
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GAATTC aligns with GA-TTA or G-ATTA and here both are equivalent alignments.
<br>Essentially you make a matrix this way, write the first seq as rows and the second as columns, then fill ...
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