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position-specific iterated search: a standalone construct

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Bioinformatics

a database search that builds a profile from its own hits and searches again, finding distant relatives.

In bioinformatics, position-specific iterated search refers to a database search that builds a profile from its own hits and searches again, finding distant relatives. This meaning comes from Altschul (1997) in Nucleic Acids Research.[1]

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  1. Altschul, S. (1997). Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Research, 25(17), 3389-3402. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/25.17.3389

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