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multiple sequence alignment

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mousbah.biotech2012 ▴ 10

If you are doing a multiple sequence alignment on 90 sequence, how many pairwise alignment need to be done?

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This sounds very much like a course question and not an actual scientific problem.

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It is a general question to understand the use of the tool.

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score 7 · Answer 1 · 2017-01-01

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Andrzej Zielezinski 11k

90 * 89 / 2 = 4005

The Handshake Problem: in a room of n people, how many different handshakes are possible: n * (n-1) / 2

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