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Clustering-based Progressive Alignment with Fuzzy Logic (CPA-FL) improves multiple sequence alignment (MSA) for large, diverse datasets. CPA-FL offers robust, accurate alignments by controlling clustering granularity, outperforming other leading MSA tools.

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  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology
  • Genomics

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  • Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is crucial for understanding protein structure, function, and evolution.
  • Aligning large, diverse sequence sets is computationally intensive and error-prone.
  • Existing MSA methods struggle with scalability and robustness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the performance of CPA-FL (Clustering-based Progressive Alignment with Fuzzy Logic), a novel MSA framework.
  • To assess CPA-FL's robustness and accuracy compared to existing alignment tools.
  • To investigate the impact of clustering strategies on MSA quality.

Main Methods:

  • Benchmarking CPA-FL against Clustal Omega, MUSCLE, Kalign, MAFFT, and T-Coffee.
  • Utilizing large protein families (HEN1, HST) and curated BALiBASE 3.0 datasets.
  • Employing graph-based clustering and fuzzy membership refinement within a progressive alignment framework.

Main Results:

  • CPA-FL configurations achieved competitive or superior performance, especially for conserved regions.
  • Moderate clustering with progressive profile HMM merging maximized alignment accuracy and evolutionary signal preservation.
  • Viterbi-based merging yielded compact alignments, while progressive merging enhanced local accuracy.

Conclusions:

  • CPA-FL provides a scalable and biologically meaningful framework for large-scale MSA.
  • The method offers explicit control over clustering granularity, mitigating issues in traditional progressive alignment.
  • CPA-FL demonstrates improved robustness and accuracy, particularly for challenging datasets.