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In general, sequence and structure alignments are frequently used to sort features of gene-family data.
Our primary objective in using sim4 was to align Drosophila ESTs and cDNA sequences only to the genes that encoded them, and not to gene-family members, and for this reason we applied stringent measures before accepting an alignment.
In some cases, mutation that eliminates expression from one gene-family member may be compensated by higher expression of other members; even if there is no visible phenotype, a molecular phenotype is predicted.