Order of BLAST matches

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From: Jonas Andersson
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:32

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Hi,

Sometimes when I do a nucleotide BLAST on Genbank, I find that the top
four-five hits have identical E-values and score. How are these hits
ordered in such cases? Is there any reason why I should prefer the
top-most one?

/ JA

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