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TITLE		Nearest relative search

OCCURRENCE      ARB_NT/Search/More search/Search Next Relatives of SELECTED Species in PT Server
                ARB_NT/Search/More search/Search Next Relatives of LISTED Species in PT Server
                ARB_NT/ARB_EDIT/EDIT/Integrated Aligners

SECTION         ALGORITHM

                Splits the sequence(s) into short oligos of a given size.
                These oligos are 'Probe Matched' against the PT_SERVER database.
                The more hits within the sequence of another species, the more related the other species is.

SECTION         PARAMETERS

                PT-Server

                        Select the PT-Server to search

                Oligo length

                        Length of oligos used to perform probe match against the PT server.
                        Default is 12.

                Mismatches

                        Number of mismatches allowed per oligo.
                        Default is 0.

                        Be careful: The search may get incredible slow, when rising the number of mismatches.

                Search mode

                       Complete:        Match all possible oligos
                       Quick:           Only match oligos starting with 'A'

                       The 'Quick mode' works well for many sequence types and is approx. 4 times
                       faster than the 'Complete mode'. For some sequence types it completely fails,
                       e.g. if there are repetitive areas containing many 'AAAAA'

                Match score:

                       absolute:        returns the absolute number of hits
                       relative:        returns the number of hits relative to maximum possible hits

                       The score depends on several other parameters like number of allowed mismatches,
                       search mode, oligo length and complement settings.

                       The maximum absolute score is

                           (length of relatives sequence) minus (oligo length)

                       Practically this score is rarely reached, because several possible oligos are
                       skipped, namely

                                - all oligos starting with 2 identical nucleotides
                                - all oligos containing IUPAC codes (or N's)

                       If mismatches are used, each oligo may hit at several positions. Thus the
                       maximum relative score may exceed 100% (and the maximum absolute score may
                       exceed its theoretical maximum).

                       If you use 'Quick mode' the mean relative score will be approx. 25% (assuming
                       that 25% of the possible oligos start with an 'A').

                       That means.. only if you use

                            - 0 mismatches,
                            - 'Complete mode' and
                            - your sequences contain no IUPACs and no repetitions,

                       you will get a score of 100% (or sequenceLength-oligoLength) for
                       the selected species itself and its duplicates.

                Complement:

                       forward:             Match only forward oligos
                       reverse:             Match only reverse oligos
                       complement:          Match only complement oligos
                       reverse-complement:  Match only reverse-complement oligos
                       and all combinations of these.

                       The combinations may affect the score as well!

                       Note: Not available for EDIT4 aligner.

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EXAMPLES	None

WARNINGS	None