[Biodevelopers] Large protein strings when doing BLAST?

[David Huen]

On Nov 27 2006, Paul Mooney wrote:

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>On 24 Nov 2006, at 19:18, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
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>> How large is a "large" protein string normally when doing BLAST?
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>> Will do searches for protein strings say consisting of 32KB of letters?
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>Can you point me at a protein that has ~32k bases?
>10,000 codons sounds a lot.

Here's a fairly spectacular example:-
http://www.flybase.net/.bin/fbidq.html?FBgn0053196

Dumpy: 23015 codons for the sheer hell of it. > 110 kb locus in a species 
that begrudges intron size.

Regards,
David Huen, Genetics, Cambridge