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Methods for assessing the statistical significance of molecular sequence features by using general scoring schemes.
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An unusual pattern in a nucleic acid or protein sequence or a region of strong similarity shared by two or more sequences may have biological significance. It is therefore desirable to know whether such a pattern can have arisen simply by chance. To identify interesting sequence patterns, appropriate scoring values can be assigned to the individual residues of a single sequence or to sets of residues when several sequences are compared. For single sequences, such scores can reflect biophysical properties such as charge, volume, hydrophobicity, or secondary structure potential; for multiple sequences, they can reflect nucleotide or amino acid similarity measured in a wide variety of ways. Using an appropriate random model, we present a theory that provides precise numerical formulas for assessing the statistical significance of any region with high aggregate score. A second class of results describes the composition of high-scoring segments. In certain contexts, these permit the choice of scoring systems which are "optimal" for distinguishing biologically relevant patterns. Examples are given of applications of the theory to a variety of protein sequences, highlighting segments with unusual biological features. These include distinctive charge regions in transcription factors and protooncogene products, pronounced hydrophobic segments in various receptor and transport proteins, and statistically significant subalignments involving the recently characterized cystic fibrosis gene.
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- Authors
- Karlin, S., & Altschul, S. F.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 1990-03
- Volume
- 87
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 2264-2268
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W2094519647
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- 1,535
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 9.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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