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Part II: Needleman-Wunsch Algorithm Instructions: 1. Go to https://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/sss/ and select GGSEARCH then protein. This will do a Needleman-Wunsch global alignment on your protein sequence. 2. Choose UniProtKB/TrEMBL as your database

(step 1) 3. Paste in your STS protein query sequence (step 2) 4. Click More options... on step 3 and choose BLOSUM50 as your scoring matrix and then click Submit. Questions: 1. What is the name and score of your top hit? 2. How do these results differ from what you got with the Smith-Waterman algorithm (SSEARCH)? 3. Why do you think the results differed?

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