[Biojava-l] Error initializing uniform protein distribution

David Huen smh1008 at cus.cam.ac.uk
Sun Jul 13 13:29:24 EDT 2003


On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 hlr02 at doc.ic.ac.uk wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> If I create a uniform protein distribution and check the emission 
> probabilities, I find that they are set to 1/21 rather than 1/20...
> 
> Henry Romijn
> 
That's because the alphabet includes selenocysteine which leads to a total
count of 21.  There was a thread discussing this recently on either this
ML or the biojava-dev ML.

Rgds,
DH




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