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EST and contig sequences were subjected to translated (blastx) searches against Arabidopsis proteins (TAIR9 annotation release [21]) with default settings, including: use of the BLOSUM62 matrix; expect threshold of 10; and, gap costs of existence: 11 and extension: 1.
Adjustable parameters for the BLAST search are set as: word size 11 (or 7 if C3 Score <30), match/mismatch penalty +1/−1, gap costs as existence/extension +2/+1, low complexity region filter off, and mask options off.
In summary, the implemented fragment chaining algorithm requires in time with linear gap costs and in time with sum-of-pair gap costs.
In the comparative study, clasp was executed with sum-of-pair gap costs (with, ) and linear gap costs with several different parameter selections.
The function below computes the edit distance between two strings, using convex or affine gap costs.
To produce biologically relevant alignments, we extend the above score to support affine gap costs.
The sum-of-pair gap costs provide a substantial advantage is this context.
We incorporated clustering in local fragment chaining with linear gap costs using an analogous condition.
We observed no effect of composition-specific gap costs on retrieval performance.
Discontinuous match/mismatch scores, 1,-2; gap costs, linear; filter, low complexity regions.
