Just a quick question,
The significance of a similarity score when searching a database is
affected by the size of the database/repository. In a highly redundant
database, will the significance of a match be higher or lower than in an
equivalent non-redundant database?
cheers,
James
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Senior Scientific Officer, phone: +44 171 938 9247
Department of Zoology, Fax: +44 171 938 9158
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London SW7 5BD.
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