[EMBOSS] needle -nobrief

Guy Bottu gbottu at vub.ac.be
Wed Mar 19 10:22:14 UTC 2008


	Dear Marc,

I indeed do not see the explanation in the manual, but I did some testing and I 
understand that :
- Identity and Similarity are computed by dividing by the total length of the 
alignment
- Longest_Identity and Longest_Similarity are computed by dividing by the number 
of aligned positions (= total length of the alignment - number of indels)
- Shortest_Identity and Shortest_Similarity are computed by dividing by the 
length of the longest sequence

	Regards,
	Guy Bottu,
	Belgian EMBnet Node




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