Empirical statistical estimates for sequence similarity searches.

@article{Pearson1998EmpiricalSE,
  title={Empirical statistical estimates for sequence similarity searches.},
  author={William R. Pearson},
  journal={Journal of molecular biology},
  year={1998},
  volume={276 1},
  pages={71-84}
}

• William R. Pearson
• Published 1998 in Journal of molecular biology

The FASTA package of sequence comparison programs has been modified to provide accurate statistical estimates for local sequence similarity scores with gaps. These estimates are derived using the extreme value distribution from the mean and variance of the local similarity scores of unrelated sequences after the scores have been corrected for the expected effect of library sequence length. This approach allows accurate estimates to be calculated for both FASTA and Smith-Waterman similarity… CONTINUE READING

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