!>Hi,
!>
!>I'm looking at page 6-7 of the GCG manual, and I'm trying to understand
!>what they are talking about regarding the bit score. It says that for
!>a bit score of 30, one would have to have looked in a search space of
!>1 billion (or 2^30) to find this HSP by chance.
!>
!>HOWEVER, in the next paragraph, we find that the search space size in
!>the example session is 235 x 12,496,420 x 0.13 or about 0.38 billion.
!>
!>Then they say "therefore a bit score of 30 would not be significant".
!>
!>What I do not understand, is that if we really had a search space of
!>0.38 billion bits, and we would need to have a search space of 1 billion
!>bits, before we would find that score by chance, then doesn't that mean
!>that a bit score of 30 WOULD be significant? Because we didn't have to
!>search a search space 1 billion bits in size, before we found it?
!>
!>Help - I'm confused!
!>
!>-- Dorothy Lowry
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!>Dorothy Lowry email: lowry at cgl.ucsf.edu
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Sincerely,
--
Herve RECIPON, PhD.
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