Hi all, while doing PSA or MSA with default gop and gep values I obtained the following alignment!
QVQLQQPGSELVKPGASVKLSCKASGYTFTNYLIHWVRQRPGRGLEWIGRIDPNSGGTKYSEKFKSKATLTVDKPSSTAYMQLSSLTSEDSAVYYCATYYFGRSFFDFWGQGTTLTVSS QVQLQQPGAELVKPGASVKLSCKASGYTFTSYWMHWVKQRPGRGLEWIGRIDPNSGGTKYNEKFKSKATLTVDKPSSTAYMQLSSLTSEDSAVYYCA---------------------R Expected PSA should be at least QVQLQQPGSELVKPGASVKLSCKASGYTFTNYLIHWVRQRPGRGLEWIGRIDPNSGGTKYSEKFKSKATLTVDKPSSTAYMQLSSLTSEDSAVYYCATYYFGRSFFDFWGQGTTLTVSS QVQLQQPGAELVKPGASVKLSCKASGYTFTSYWMHWVKQRPGRGLEWIGRIDPNSGGTKYNEKFKSKATLTVDKPSSTAYMQLSSLTSEDSAVYYCA-----R---------------- this expected alignment was obtained with gop=1 and gep=100 I can't understand while the PSA algorithm with default values always adds many gaps at the end of alignment to end up with a S:R while it is obvious that with less gaps we could obtain better SequencePair with R:R? Finally, how to get a score for PSA, that reflects the number of identical, similar residues and gaps? Many thanks. Khalil _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
