Publication Date:
2020-10-05
Description:
Motivation Researchers and practitioners use a number of popular sequence comparison tools that use many alignment-based techniques. Due to high time and space complexity and length-related restrictions, researchers often seek alignment-free tools. Recently, some interesting ideas, namely, Minimal Absent Words (MAW) and Relative Absent Words (RAW), have received much interest among the scientific community as distance measures that can give us alignment-free alternatives. This drives us to structure a framework for analyzing biological sequences in an alignment-free manner. Results In this application note, we present ADACT (Alignment-free Dissimilarity Analysis & Comparison Tool), a simple web based tool that computes the analogy among sequences using a varied number of indexes through the distance matrix, species relation list and phylogenetic tree. This tool basically combines absent word (MAW or RAW) computation, dissimilarity measures, species relationship and thus brings all required software in one platform for the ease of researchers and practitioners alike in the field of bioinformatics. We have also developed a restful API. Availability ADACT has been hosted at http://research.buet.ac.bd/ADACT/
Print ISSN:
1367-4803
Electronic ISSN:
1460-2059
Topics:
Biology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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