Brian Osborne (bosborne at NATURE.BERKELEY.EDU) wrote:
: I would _very_ much like to know where I can find the actual matrices
: used by these programs, such as BlastP. Once I used "PAM" in a veronica
: search but only found an example of PAM250. Is there a site where these
: might be archived?
Look in the BLAST distribution from NCBI. If you don't feel
like getting the whole thing, I think there is an "explode"
subdirectory with the file structure laid out. Look in
blast/matrix/aa
The BLAST distribution can be found on
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
by either FTP or Gopher.
Keith Robison
Harvard University
Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology
Department of Genetics / HHMI
robison at mito.harvard.edu
