The phrase "alignment more closely" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the degree of similarity or agreement between two or more things, often in a comparative context.
Example: "We need to ensure that our goals are in alignment more closely with the company's vision for the upcoming year."
Alternatives: "better alignment" or "closer alignment".
To identify variants that might affect peptide structure/function, we examined secondary alignments more closely by using only the predicted peptide of each K-Channel ortholog in zebra finch as queries in the BLAT searches.
However, in sequence alignments, this truncated protein aligns more closely with the full-sized S. moellendofrii CstF64 orthologs than with the At1g73840-like proteins (Additional file 2: Figure S3).
If a read was from the plus strand, the alignment against the original sequence was closer, whereas a minus strand read aligned more closely with the reverse complement.
Reads that unambiguously align more closely to the alternate than the original reference are modified to reflect the updated alignment information in the context of the original reference.
Insertion of the simulated data ahead of the FGB-int7 sequences should drive the alignment to conform more closely to the original mt tree.
Several large cohort studies of child health and development have been developed in close alignment with government in an attempt to more closely align science and policy translation.
The results of this work also showed that, based on the number of shared orthologous genes and genomic alignments, N. galegae is more closely related to R. leguminoarum sv.
Moves are afoot which suggest – at least to me – that one sector in particular is moving ever more closely into alignment with the theatre industry: education.
Interestingly, all except two OsUBC13 introns are different from that of AtUBC13B, consistent with the amino acid alignment indicating that OsUBC13 is more closely related to AtUBC13B than to AtUBC13A.
The recent social policy reforms in these countries reveal that they are bringing social policies more closely in alignment with economic policy objectives, if not further integrating social and economic policies.
