Weissman score

The Weissman score is a metric used to assess the quality of sequence alignments in bioinformatics, particularly in the context of comparing genomic or protein sequences. It evaluates alignments based on the number of sequences that show a specific degree of similarity or conservation across a given alignment. The Weissman score can be useful in various applications, such as identifying conserved regions among sequences, understanding evolutionary relationships, and inferring functional implications of specific sequence features.