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An R package to calculate indices and theoretical physicochemical properties of peptides and protein sequences.
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What the meaning of Blosum1-10 #49

Open wevxman opened 2 years ago

wevxman commented 2 years ago

Hi!

Thanks for such a wonderful package. I have a question of the function blosumIndices. After inputting a peptide sequence, I would get 10 values named Blosum1-10. What's the meaning of these values?

Hope your answer, it would help a lot!

Thanks!

dosorio commented 2 years ago

Hi @wevxman,

Thanks for using Peptides, BLOSUM1 to BLOSUM10 are the (Table 5) first 10 BLOSUM62-Derived Indices reported by Georgiev, Alexander G. "Interpretable numerical descriptors of amino acid space." Journal of Computational Biology 16.5 (2009): 703-723.

Best wishes,

Daniel