Hi,
A colleague has posed the following question to me. Unfortunately, I have
not been able to come up with an answer. Could anyone provide us with an
explanations of the ìscoreî for this Multident AAA Query? Thanks
John S. Smith
Protein Chemistry
UTMB
I used the ExPASy WWW Server and received the results of a
MultiIdent Query from expasy@expasy.ch <mailto:expasy@expasy.ch>
When I asked for the search I entered the AA composition.
What I received back were two tables: SWISS-PROT database and TrEMBL
database with the following headings and one example from SWISS-PROT:
Rank Score Protein (pI Mw)
Description
1 32 AMP2_HUMAN 5.57 52892
Methionine Aminopeptidase 2 (EC 3.4.11)
What I don't understand is the "score". I couldn't find an
explanation of it in the documentation other than a short statistical
description and not how it relates to the similarity of the two proteins,
which is what I need to know. For example, what score would indicate
identity and what score shows no identity. Then I could figure out what the
intermediate numbers mean.
Thanks.
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