Explain why the probability of changing an amino acid such as alanine to arginine is not equal to the probability of changing an arginine to an alanine when using the PAM series of matrices.
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They are based on observed mutations in proteins over evolutionary time. Each PAM matrix represents the probability of one amino acid being replaced by another over a certain number of accepted mutations. Show more…
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