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+Mumsa is a tool for automatic assessment of alignment quality. A number
+of alternate (to be compared) multiple alignments have to be generated
+and submitted.
+
+Mumsa computes:
+- the average overlap score (AOS), reflecting the difficulty of aligning
+ the sequences
+- multiple overlap score (MOS) indicating the quality of each individual
+ alignment.
+
+Both scores range between one and zero.
+
+CITING
+Lassmann T, Sonnhammer EL. Kalign, Kalignvu and Mumsa: web servers for
+multiple sequence alignment. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Jul 1;34(Web Server
+issue): W596-9. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkl191.
+PMID: 16845078; PMCID: PMC1538774