Workshop #9
Use Entrez to find the C-terminal region (approximately 215 residues) of human BRCA1 (SWISS-PROT accession number P38398). Search the NR protein database with this sequence using PSI-BLAST. Save your search results.  Now perform a second iteration.  Compare your new search results.  Some sequence alignments from the second search have higher scores than the same sequence alignment obtained from the first search.   Why? Alternatively, some sequence alignments from the second search have lower scores than the same sequence alignments obtained from the first search.  Why?

 
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