I think J=W ( or Trp).
For some purpose, amino acids are coded into the first 20 letters of
alphabet, so after the 20th in alphabetical order (T=Threonine), there are
3 amino acids need to be mapped to fit: V,W,Y into B,J,O (for Val, Trp,
Tyr).
Maybe others can correct me if I'm wrong.
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> Subject: [Bio-software] Re: Which amino acid residue does the letter
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>> Leucine or Isoleucine
>> On 2008-06-25, Linlin Yan <yanlinlin82 from gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just found there is a letter 'J' in NCBI's scoring matrix file
> > (e.g. /usr/share/ncbi/data/BLOSUM50). Does anybody know what it is?
> > Thanks!
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