[Biojava-l] unwanted gap in alignments

[Scooter Willis]

Khalil

You can change the GAP penalty and see what happens. I think there is also a
way to specify a pre-alignment of sequence positions but haven't used it.

Thanks

Scooter

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Khalil El Mazouari <
khalil.elmazouari at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am testing the PSA and MSA examples from Cookbook3.
>
> Sometimes, gaps were introduced in "unwanted" places in the alignments. Ex.
> below:
>
>
> EVQLQQSGAELVKPGASVKLSCTASGFNIKDTYMHWVKQRPEKGLEWIGRIDPASGNTKYDPKFQDKATITADTSSNTAYLQLSSLTSEDTAVYYCAGYDYGNFDYWGQGTTLTVSS
>
> EVQLQQSGAELVKPGASVKLSCTASGFNIKDTYMHWVKQRPEQGLEWIGRIDPANGNTKYDPKFQGKATITADTSSNTAYLQLSSLTSEDTAVYYCA-------------------R
>
> expected PSA was:
>
> EVQLQQSGAELVKPGASVKLSCTASGFNIKDTYMHWVKQRPEKGLEWIGRIDPASGNTKYDPKFQDKATITADTSSNTAYLQLSSLTSEDTAVYYCAGYDYGNFDYWGQGTTLTVSS
>
> EVQLQQSGAELVKPGASVKLSCTASGFNIKDTYMHWVKQRPEQGLEWIGRIDPANGNTKYDPKFQGKATITADTSSNTAYLQLSSLTSEDTAVYYCAR-------------------
>
>
> the same for MSA
>
> DVQLVESGGGLVKPGGSLRLSCAASGFTFSTAWMKWVRQAPGKGLEWVVWRVEQVVEKAFANSVNGRFTISRNDSKNTLYLQMISVTPZBTAVYYCARVVVSTSMDVWGQGTPVT
>
> EVQLVESGGGLVQPGGSLKLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQASGKGLEWV-----------------GRFTISRDDSKNTAYLQMNSLKTEDTAVYYCTR-----------------
>
> EVQLVESGGGLVQPGGSLRLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQAPGKGLEWV-----------------GRFTISRDDSKNSLYLQMNSLKTEDTAVYYCAR-----------------
>
> QVQLVESGGGVVQPGRSLRLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQAPGKGLEWVA-----------------RFTISRDNSKNTLYLQMNSLRAEDTAVYYCAR-----------------
>
> QVQLVESGGGVVQPGRSLRLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQAPGKGLEWVA-----------------RFTISRDNSKNTLYLQMNSLRAEDTAVYYCAR-----------------
>
> expected MSA
>
> DVQLVESGGGLVKPGGSLRLSCAASGFTFSTAWMKWVRQAPGKGLEWVVWRVEQVVEKAFANSVNGRFTISRNDSKNTLYLQMISVTPZBTAVYYCARVVVSTSMDVWGQGTPVT
>
> EVQLVESGGGLVQPGGSLKLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQASGKGLEWVG-----------------RFTISRDDSKNTAYLQMNSLKTEDTAVYYCTR-----------------
>
> EVQLVESGGGLVQPGGSLRLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQAPGKGLEWVG-----------------RFTISRDDSKNSLYLQMNSLKTEDTAVYYCAR-----------------
>
> QVQLVESGGGVVQPGRSLRLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQAPGKGLEWVA-----------------RFTISRDNSKNTLYLQMNSLRAEDTAVYYCAR-----------------
>
> QVQLVESGGGVVQPGRSLRLSCAASGFTFS-----WVRQAPGKGLEWVA-----------------RFTISRDNSKNTLYLQMNSLRAEDTAVYYCAR-----------------
>
>
> I have tested different gop/gep and LOCAL/GLOBAL PSA . No success!
>
> How can I force or avoid the gap creation at specific positions?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Khalil
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