Thank you for using POA!
Please, reference our papers:


1. Multiple Sequence Alignment Using Partial Order Graphs
Christopher Lee, Catherine Grasso, & Mark Sharlow
Bioinformatics 2002 18:452-464.

2. Combining Partial Order Alignment and Progressive Multiple Sequence Alignment Increases Alignment Speed and Scalability to Very Large Alignment Problems
Catherine Grasso and Christopher Lee
Bioinformatics 2004 20:1546-1556.


Download POA v2   (updated 6-10-2004)
This version of POA includes progressive buildup and global alignment [2] .

Download POA   (updated 12-23-2003)
The original version of POA performs iterative local alignment [1] .


The POA program was written by Christopher Lee with additional help from Catherine Grasso and Michael Quist.