We introduce a new graph-based multiple sequence alignment method for
protein sequences. We name our method HSA (Horizontal Sequence
Alignment) for it horizontally slides a window on the protein
sequences simultaneously. Current progressive alignment tools build up
final alignment by adding sequences one by one to existing
alignment. Thus, they have the shortcoming of order-dependent
alignment. In contrast, HSA considers all the proteins at once. It
obtains final alignment by concatenating cliques of graph. In order to
find a biologically relevant alignment, HSA takes secondary structure
information as well as amino acid sequences into account. The
experimental results show that HSA achieves higher accuracy compared
to existing tools on BAliBASE benchmarks. The improvement is more
significant for proteins with low similarity.