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Is There A Way To Calculate If Two Columns In Alignment Are Significantly Different?

Given two multiple sequence alignment that have columns that correspond to each other, is there a way to calculate if the two corresponding columns are significantly different?

I am trying to distinguish between two closely related groups of homologs. I wanted to identify column/regions between two groups that are different - conserved in one and not in other - to use the column as proxy in a matrix.

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I dint understand properly can you make it more clear?

I added further explanation. Hope its clear.

1 answer

Google for Shannon's entropy and multiple sequence alignment.

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