Suppose you used the NCBI Blast server to look for a match to a fruit-fly gene

Suppose you used the NCBI Blast server to look for a match
to a fruit-fly gene.

Suppose further that the best alignment contained this
section of an alignment:

Hit from database: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXNFSTSQ

user sequence: SLEAEAAPASISPSNFSSSQ
What do the Xs signify?

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unknown amino acid

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low complexity regions

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that x may be any amino acid and we can consider any value
of identity on the basis of matching of user seq with hit

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gaps in a gapped alignment.

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