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... . These values have been used in several database searches, and the growth of scores from aligning random sequences lies in the logarithmic region.
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... Hearing Distant Echos 111 Table 4.2 Scores and Alignment Statistics tRNAScore # ~Matches mms. Indels ala-la12.2 -.02 14 2 0 ala-lb12.2 -0.1 14 2 0 cys 21.0 6.2 40 10 5 asp-1 10.8 -1.1 22 8 2 glu-1 10.9 -0.8 21 9 1 glu-2 12.8 0.6 22 8 1 phe 13.0 0.6 32 10 5 gly-1 9.4 -1.4 15 4 1 gly-2 9.5 - 1.2 35 15 6 gly-3 14.4 1.5 41 14 7 his-1 13.2 1.1 28 12 2 ire-1 13.6 0.9 41 26 2 ire-2 14.0 1.3 35 10 6 lys 10.7 -0.5 23 7 3 leu-1 13.8 0.7 49 28 5 leu-2 11.7 -0.7 33 17 3 leu-5 13.4 0.4 36 14 5 met-f 12.0 -.03 44 20 7 met-m 11.4 -0.2 21 4 3 asn 15.3 2.4 33 13 3 gin-1 11.8 0.1 23 8 2 gin-2 12.1 0.2 26 11 2 erg-1 13.3 0.7 48 23 7 erg-2 12.8 0.3 26 8 3 ser-1 11.1 -1.3 29 11 4 ser-3 13.8 0.3 42 18 6 thr-ggt 10.1 -1.3 15 1 2 val-1 11.9 -0.2 22 9 1 val-2a 11.3 -0.7 14 3 0 val-2b 11.3 -0.4 14 3 0 trp 11.0 -0.7 22 10 1 tyr-1 11.7 -0.4 31 17 2 ~_ 19 7 # c,, the number of standard deviations above the mean value (for comparing the two random sequences of similar lengths)
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