The phrase "alignment and extension" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to coordination, agreement, or the expansion of ideas, strategies, or physical objects.
Example: "The project requires careful alignment and extension of our resources to ensure success."
Alternatives: "coordination and expansion" or "adjustment and growth".
Some groups will reframe their slogans or broaden their agenda (in socio-speak: frame alignment and frame extension).
Starting with the fragment with the highest number of hits, we then performed an iterative process of alignment and consensus extension of the sequences.
The underlying SSWAP semantic web service accepts parameterization of gapped alignments, expectation and extension thresholds, word size settings, and limits on maximum hits and returned alignments.
Sequences of top hits were aligned using ClustalX (Larkin et al. 2007) and the following parameter settings: for pairwise alignment, gap opening and extension penalties are 15 and 0.3, respectively; for multiple alignment, gap opening and extension penalties are 35 and 0.75, respectively.
Markov clustering and subsequent filtering based on sequence identity and alignment extension allowed us to define 43,960 homologous families (supplementary fig. 2, Supplementary Material online), including 3,959 gene families containing four or more sequences.
The program uses exact matching, clustering, and alignment extension strategies to create a dot plot based on the number of identical alignments between two genomes.
The program uses exact matching, clustering, and alignment extension strategies to create a dot plot based on the number of identical alignments between genomes.
A synteny plot was generated using the program NUCmer, which uses exact matching, clustering, and alignment extension strategies to create a dot plot based on the number of identical alignments between two genomes [ 29].
