Where did the BLOSUM62 alignment score matrix come from?
Many sequence alignment programs use the BLOSUM62 score matrix to score pairs of aligned residues. Where did BLOSUM62 come from?
Eddy
Sean R
SR
Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, 4444 Forest Park Blvd., Box 8510, Saint Louis, Missouri 63108, USA. eddy@genetics.wustl.edu
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