Adjusting scoring matrices to correct overextended alignments
Motivation: Sequence similarity searches performed with BLAST, SSEARCH and FASTA achieve high sensitivity by using scoring matrices (e.g. BLOSUM62) that target low identity (<33%) alignments. Although such scoring matrices can effectively identify distant homologs, they can also produce local ali...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3834790/ |