Lecture 7 Flashcards
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Alignments
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Myoglobin and haemoglobin can be aligned in various ways. The optimal alignment is regarded as the one that maximises the similarities – the most parsimonious alignment.
The idea behind maximum parsimony is a variant of Occam’s Razor – when there are a variety of explanations, the simplest one is the best starting point.
