Cautions
- Weak alignments
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- Steve Henikoff has described the danger of "Playing with Blocks" (New Biologist 3:1148), trying to generate multiple alignments from statistically-marginal (or worse) pairwise alignments.
- Russell Doolittle's review "Similar amino acid sequences: chance or common ancestry" (Science 214:149) contains a number of guidelines for searching for similarities.
Biased amino acid composition
see: Pre-filters
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