Mark Cohen said:
> A final comment specifically for Dan Davidson.
Davison ( :-))
> You made a suggestion that our gap penalty did not have a length
> term (this was on the info-gcg list which I don't have direct access
> to). We gave 3 equations [...] where P is the probability of a gap
> of length k [...]
I was wrong. I was looking for something like _nk_, a la the
now-infamous w = g + nr.
> Please can you make any comments or followups here or
> bionet.general, we don't have the info-gcg list. I suspect that
> much of the adverse comment is a result of misunderstanding.
It is clear from your posting and Dr. Gonnet's that most, if not all,
of what is going on is a misunderstanding.
The "why" is another story, but irrelevant.
Thanks for the posting.
dan davison
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