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  • Niraks
    Junior Member
    • Aug 2010
    • 1
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    Blast sequence algorithm

    I've got a question regarding the BLASTn search algorithm that I can't quite grasp. Is it possible for two DNA sequences of length 100 may be >90% identical but have no similarity according to the BLASTn search and if so, how?

    Is it to do with differences in alignment with the HSP or it's threshold values?
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  • krobison
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2007
    • 734
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    If they have that high an identity, I can't see how they wouldn't match for BLASTN even with it set to very high stringency. Are you sure everything is being run correctly and that they are really that similar?

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    • lh3
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2008
      • 686
      #3
      If the 9 mismatches on a 100bp sequence happen to occur at the 11th, 22nd, 33rd,..., 99th positions, BLAST under the default configuration (11-mer) will miss it as there are no seed hits. This is pretty rare, though.

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