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A substitution matrix is a scoring system that quantifies the likelihood of one amino acid being substituted for another in an alignment. It is derived from statistical analysis of reliable alignments of highly related protein sequences. There are two main types of amino acid substitution matrices: those based on amino acid properties and those empirically derived like PAM and BLOSUM matrices from actual sequence alignments. PAM and BLOSUM matrices assign scores reflecting the observed frequency of substitu
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