Question

With the application of Bayesian methods, the most probable repeat length and evolutionary time since the repeat was formed may be derived.

(a) True

(b) False

The question was posed to me in an international level competition.

My question is taken from Bayesian Statistics topic in section Sequence Alignment of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Correct choice is (a) True

To elaborate: Sequences of this type originated from gene duplication events in the yeast and Caenorhabditis elegans genomes. When there are multiple mismatches between such repeated sequences, it is difficult to determine the most likely length of the repeats. Here the methods can be used.