RES: [Bioperl-l] Mysql columns and Blast evalues

hancy hancy at gene.ucl.ac.be
Thu Mar 10 11:58:19 EST 2005


I'm using DOUBLE UNSIGNED to store blast evalues in MySQL, which allows 
you to store 0 and positive values between ~2.2e-308 to 1.8e308.
Anything with an evalue between 0 and e-308 will be set to 0 
automatically (it shouldn't be a great loss of information anyway).

Hope this can help,
fred.


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