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In the heuristic approach the profile searches BMERC's all-genomes and Swiss-Prot by filtering the larger databases using BLAST with an expectation value cutoff of E = 10 -2, followed by a short-in-long profile search.
[ 11] have applied a heuristic algorithm to the analysis of yeast gene-expression data to identify overlapping sets of genes whose expression is similar to known gene-expression patterns.
Overall, the p -values quoted should be considered as heuristic measures, useful as indicators of possible statistical significance, rather than as the results of formal inference.
Storm, Sonnhammer, and colleagues have recently developed similar ideas and procedures in a program called ORTHOSTRAPPER [ 44 45 ] . One distinction between the two approaches is that ORTHOSTRAPPER's orthology determination procedure does not employ a species tree for duplication inference; it uses a heuristic based on sequence similarity rather than a formally correct phylogenetic means of inferring orthology.
The alignment was done in Megalign by the CLUSTAL method and a phylogenetic tree was generated using the Bootstrap (100 replicates) method with a heuristic search of the PAUP 4.0b6 program (Figure 3).