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Research Simulation Scenario
The origin of human genetic variability from
cross-species comparisons: The truth about Blast

Direct comparison of RS1140646 with part of chromosome 22
Yes. They are not matches, are they. That is all right. Not everything has to match, now does it?

Blast tried very very hard. Which is good.
Sequence 1 RS1140646
Sequence 2 Chimp chr-22 region
No significant similarity was found

Blast pairwise comparison of human SNP RS1140646 to fragment of chromosome 22.

Still, maybe it would be better if Blast sits in a corner for a while and calculates some square roots while we talk big people talk.

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