A minimum reporting standard for multiple sequence alignments

Wong, ThomasKalyaanamoorthy, SubhaMeusemann, KarenYeates, David K.Misof, BernhardJermiin, Lars2021-02-212021-02-212631-9268http://hdl.handle.net/1885/223633Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) play a pivotal role in studies of molecular sequence data, but nobody has developed a minimum reporting standard (MRS) to quantify the completeness of MSAs. We present an MRS that relies on four simple completeness metrics. The metrics are implemented in AliStat, a program developed to support the MRS. A survey of published MSAs illustrates the benefits and unprecedented transparency offered by the MRS.CSIRO.application/pdfen-AU© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of NAR Genomics and Bioinformaticshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/A minimum reporting standard for multiple sequence alignments202010.1093/nargab/lqaa0242022-07-10Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License