[Bioperl-l] p-value, e-value

[Jonathan Epstein]

I think this is mostly correct, Ewan.  If memory serves, the p-values no longer became statistically meaningful when gapped alignments were introduced in BLAST 2.  It's possible that the P-values might be meaningful if you specify that an ungapped alignment should be performed.

-Jonathan

At 01:41 AM 1/8/2002 , Ewan Birney wrote:
>I think the only thing which actually produces just P-values is BLAST 1
>series (am I wrong?) and I think we should just document that we put the
>Pvalue in the Evalue slot as it is also 10 year old software now and
>people should have moved on from the BLAST 1 series by now.



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