Which of the following is untrue about DIALIGN2?

It does not apply gap penalties and thus is not sensitive to long gaps

It is a web based program designed to detect local similarities

It is designed to detect global similarities

It does not apply gap penalties and thus is not sensitive to long gaps

The method breaks each of the sequences down to smaller segments and performs all possible pair wise alignments between the segments

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1.	Match-Box compares segments of some of the nine residues of possible Pair wise alignments.
A.	True
B.	False
Answer» C.

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2.	Which of the following is untrue about DIALIGN2?
A.	It is a web based program designed to detect local similarities
B.	It is designed to detect global similarities
C.	It does not apply gap penalties and thus is not sensitive to long gaps
D.	The method breaks each of the sequences down to smaller segments and performs all possible pair wise alignments between the segments
Answer» C. It does not apply gap penalties and thus is not sensitive to long gaps

Discussion

3.	The major drawback of the progressive and iterative alignment strategies is that they are largely global alignment based and may therefore fail to recognize conserved domains and motifs among highly divergent sequences of varying lengths.
A.	True
B.	False
Answer» B. False

Discussion

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Match-Box compares segments of some of the nine residues of possible Pair wise alignments.

Which of the following is untrue about DIALIGN2?

The major drawback of the progressive and iterative alignment strategies is that they are largely global alignment based and may therefore fail to recognize conserved domains and motifs among highly divergent sequences of varying lengths.