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[Martin Gollery]

Yes, they mean 'High Scoring Pairs', not 'High Speed Products'.

Marty

On 8/18/05, Marcos Oliveira de Carvalho <operon at cbiot.ufrgs.br> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Looking some papers about phylogenomic methods I found this reference:
> 
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15166018&query_hl=48
> 
> However, in the paragraph below, I was very confused:
> 
> "More precisely, GBDP starts with an all-against-all pairwise
> comparison of genomes using BLASTN (Altschul et al., 1990).
> In a second step, a distance matrix is calculated from the
> resulting HSPs **(High Speed Products)**.
> Here, we studied a number of variants which are described in detail
> below..."
> 
> High Speed Products?
> 
> I wonder they are not talking about "high score segment pairs" (HSSPs also
> abbreviated as HSPs).
> 
> 
> cheers
> 
> Marcos
> 
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