Re: Order of BLAST matches

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From: Kevin Karplus
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:29

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In article <d2f49f4e.0410192324.122559a8@posting.google.com>, 
	Jonas Andersson wrote:
> 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?

The order is arbitrary (probably the order in the underlying
database), and you should not favor the first one.


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