Question

The major disadvantage of the PRSS program is that it doesn’t allow partial shuffling.

(a) True

(b) False

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This key question is from Statistical Significance of Sequence Alignment topic in division Pairwise Sequence Alignment of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

The correct answer is (b) False

Best explanation: The major feature of the program is that it allows partial shuffling. For example, shuffling can be restricted to residues within a local window of 25–40, whereas the residues outside the window remain unchanged.