What is an alignment?

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What is an alignment?..

Answer / swapna

The juxtaposition of amino acids or nucleotides in
homologous molecules to maximize similarity or minimize the
number of inferred changes among the sequences. Alignment
is used to infer positional homology (qv) prior to or
concurrent with phylogenetic.

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What is an alignment?..

Answer / madhu kiran

Alignment is the adjustment of an object in relation with
other objects, or a static orientation of some object or
set of objects in relation to others.

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