[Biojava-l] problem in alignment

Andreas Dräger andreas.draeger at uni-tuebingen.de
Mon Feb 23 20:48:54 UTC 2009


Dear Anant Jain,

Yeah, the problem is that the substitution matrices, e.g., BLOSUM 50,  
contain the *-symbol. So you'll definitely need the PROTEIN_TERM  
alphabet when doing protein alignments. Just try and let me know if it  
works.

Cheers
Andreas Dräger


Dipl.-Bioinform. Andreas Dräger
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Center for Bioinformatics (ZBIT)
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