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Bioinformatics

an amino acid substitution scoring table derived from observed replacements in ungapped blocks of aligned families.

In bioinformatics, BLOSUM matrix refers to an amino acid substitution scoring table derived from observed replacements in ungapped blocks of aligned families. This meaning comes from Henikoff (1992) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Henikoff, S., & Henikoff, J. G. (1992). Amino acid substitution matrices from protein blocks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 89(22), 10915-10919. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.89.22.10915

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