how to pairwise BLAST very short sequences?

[Philipp Pagel]

Christoph Bock <usenet at christoph-bock.de> wrote:

> I tried to use NCBI BLAST to estimate the evolutionary distance
> between very short local protein sequence segments in homologous
> proteins with high sequence identity. e.g. KIYKDTEGY against KIKNTEGY

BLAST is probably not a good choice for this application. I would
recommend to use optimal global alignment (Needleman-Wunsch). You could
use the tool 'needle' from the EMBOSS package, for example.

cu
	Philipp

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