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BLOSUM matrices belong to the most commonly used substitution matrix series for protein homology search and sequence alignments since their publication in 1992. In 2008, Styczynski et al. discovered miscalculations in the clustering step of the matrix computation. Still, the RBLOSUM64 matrix based on the corrected BLOSUM code was reported to perform worse at a statistically significant level than the BLOSUM62. Here, we present a further correction of the (R)BLOSUM code and provide a thorough performance analysis of BLOSUM-, RBLOSUM- and the newly derived CorBLOSUM-type matrices. Thereby, we assess homology search performance of these matrix-types derived from three different BLOCKS databases on all versions of the ASTRAL20, ASTRAL40 and ASTRAL70 subsets resulting in 51 different benchmarks in total. Our analysis is focused on two of the most popular BLOSUM matrices - BLOSUM50 and BLOSUM62.
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View all literature mentionsBlocks is a database of highly conserved regions of proteins, or Blocks. THe database is no longer maintained or updated and some of its tools are no longer functional. However, Blocks does provide Block Searcher, Get Blocks and Block Maker, aids to detection and verification of protein sequence homology. They compare a protein or DNA sequence to a database of protein blocks (current version), retrieve blocks, and create new blocks, respectively. Users can further view blocks by (keyword or number), search a sequence against the database of blocks, search blocks against each other, or make blocks of their own.
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