[DAS2] Example alignments
Ed Griffiths
edgrif at sanger.ac.uk
Thu Jun 8 04:15:17 EDT 2006
Lincoln,
> Query and subject are rather BLAST-specific and don't apply to other
> techniques, such as whole genome alignments. How about using "reference" for
> the reference sequence and "non-reference" for the target?
That seems fine to me, I think the word "target" is ambiguous as I have commonly
heard people refer to both the "query" and the "subject" sequences as the
"target" ! (but not at the same time of course ;-)
Ed
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