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Which of the given statements is incorrect about Cluster analysis?(a) Clustering organizes the proteins into groups by some objective criterion(b) One criterion for a matching protein pair is the statistical significance of their alignment score(c) The P or E value from BLAST searches cannot be the criterion for a matching protein pair(d) A criterion for clustering proteins is the distance between each pair of sequences in a multiple sequence alignmentThe question was posed to me in semester exam.The query is from Comparative Genomics in section Collecting & Storing Sequences in Laboratory of Bioinformatics

Answer» CORRECT choice is (c) The P or E VALUE from BLAST searches cannot be the criterion for a matching protein pair

The explanation is: Option c and b mean the same YET are different by the negation in option c.The LOWER this value, the better the alignment. There will be a cutoff P or E value at which the matches in the BLAST search are no longer considered significant. A value of P or E = 0.01–0.05 is usually the POINT at which the alignment score is no longer considered to be significant inorder to focus on a more closely related group of proteins.


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