Biochemistry
Biochemistry
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Author: Lubert Stryer, Jeremy M. Berg, John L. Tymoczko, Gregory J. Gatto Jr.
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 6, Problem 15P
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A method to determine the most appropriate gap penalty should be suggested.

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Gap penalty is a scoring method used in sequential alignment of two or more sequences. Introducing gaps to sequences will match more nucleotides. But we should minimize the number of gaps. Introducing too many gaps to a sequence is not useful. Therefore, gap penalties are used to score the introduction of gaps according to the number and length of the gap.

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