[BioC] scoring matrices

[Philipp Pagel]

On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 06:20:44AM +0200, mauede at alice.it wrote:
> A silly question  ....
> What is the meaning of matrices like BLOSUM45, BLOSUM50, and so on ...

You'll find plenty of information if you as you search engine of
choice for "scoring matrix" and  "sequence alignment". Once you got a
rough ide I recommend Sean Eddys well written article:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15286655

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	Philipp

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Dr. Philipp Pagel
Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik
Technische Universität München
Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan
85350 Freising, Germany
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