NCBI_NOW lecture 1 question on SRA blast
Hi, in lecture 1 you do a blast aligning SRA sequences from Mus with human IFNg- why didn't you use the mouse IFNg instead to do the alignment?
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Rolando
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It depends upon the goal..
For example.. You can define as task a dc-megablast search to look for orthologous sequences within your sra file
You can find interesting the fact that sometimes you don't find anything interesting with a regular blastn when something appear when playing with different tasks or word sizes and gap and extension penalties. And this is something you only can accomplish if using a orthologous sequence
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Excellent point, I totally should have.
Good catch!
Ben
Thank you!
Regards,
Rolando