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Bioinformatics #4 Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 7/13/2011
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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This is the fourth cache in a series covering different aspects of bioinformatics, all placed in the vicinity of universities with bioinformatics-related research. Doing other caches in the series might help you find the solution.


A Position-Specific Scoring Matrix (PSSM) is a scoring matrix used to identify proteins with a sequence that e.g. indicate the existence of a protein domain or relationship to a protein family. As the name implies, they score residues based on their position in an alignment, as opposed to position-independent matrices such as PAM and BLOSUM.

First consider a certain character created by SEGA in relation to zebrafishes,
then use T = 0.000001 and keep on looking in "the swiss database" until there are no changes.
The coordinates are then found at 287 183 11 314 350 267 413 24 314 199 270 302 409 1 314 in the resulting PSSM.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

APOV CFV-OYNFG, 10=0

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)