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Sequence alignment
Lining up DNA or protein sequences to find similarities. Dynamic programming finds the best global or local alignment.
Substitution matrices
Scores for replacing one amino acid with another, such as BLOSUM, used when aligning proteins.Source: Henikoff & Henikoff, 1992
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Amino acid substitution matrices from protein blocks (opens the original in a new tab)
Henikoff S, Henikoff JG (1992). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 89:10915-10919.
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