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Local sequence alignments statistics: deviations from Gumbel statistics in the rare-event tail

Stefan Wolfsheimer1,2*, Bernd Burghardt1 and Alexander K Hartmann1,2

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1 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, Germany

2 Institut für Physik, Universität Oldenburg, 26111, Oldenburg, Germany

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Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2007, 2:9 doi:10.1186/1748-7188-2-9

Published: 11 July 2007

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Fit parameter of the modified Gumbel distribution. CSV file (tabulator separated) of fit parameters of the modified Gumbel distribution Eq. (18) using different scoring matrices (BLOSUM62 and (PAM250) and gap costs. 104 <a onClick="popup('http://www.almob.org/content/2/1/9/mathml/M49','MathML',630,470);return false;" target="_blank" href="http://www.almob.org/content/2/1/9/mathml/M49">View MathML</a> describes the estimated value of λ2 using the scaling relation Eq. (19) (for small gap costs only).

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