[BiO BB] A question about BLOSUM matrices

[Iddo Friedberg]

Hi Jugal,

B: aspartic acid / asparagine
Z: glutamic acid / glutamine
X: unknown residue
*: anything which is not in {ABCDEFGHIKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ}. Alternatively, it
might be the "translation" of an end codon.


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On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, J Kalita wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a question about BLOSUM matrices such as the one you see
> on the Web page at
> http://eta.embl-heidelberg.de:8000/misc/mat/blosum80.html.
> Can anyone please explain to me what the last four columns and last four
> rows labeled "B", "Z", "X" and "*" are?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Jugal Kalita
> Computer Science Department
> University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
> 
> 
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