Multiple sequence alignmentMultiple sequence alignment (MSA) may refer to the process or the result of sequence alignment of three or more biological sequences, generally protein, DNA, or RNA. In many cases, the input set of query sequences are assumed to have an evolutionary relationship by which they share a linkage and are descended from a common ancestor. From the resulting MSA, sequence homology can be inferred and phylogenetic analysis can be conducted to assess the sequences' shared evolutionary origins.
Partitionnement de donnéesvignette|upright=1.2|Exemple de clustering hiérarchique. Le partitionnement de données (ou data clustering en anglais) est une méthode en analyse des données. Elle vise à diviser un ensemble de données en différents « paquets » homogènes, en ce sens que les données de chaque sous-ensemble partagent des caractéristiques communes, qui correspondent le plus souvent à des critères de proximité (similarité informatique) que l'on définit en introduisant des mesures et classes de distance entre objets.
Distance matrices in phylogenyDistance matrices are used in phylogeny as non-parametric distance methods and were originally applied to phenetic data using a matrix of pairwise distances. These distances are then reconciled to produce a tree (a phylogram, with informative branch lengths). The distance matrix can come from a number of different sources, including measured distance (for example from immunological studies) or morphometric analysis, various pairwise distance formulae (such as euclidean distance) applied to discrete morphological characters, or genetic distance from sequence, restriction fragment, or allozyme data.
