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From the trees with a minimal number of duplications (if there is more than one) the tree with the shortest total height is chosen as the rooted tree.
The PIPs were observed to have two different amino-terminal extensions, one approximately 50, the second approximately 30 amino-acid residues longer than the AQPs with the shortest amino terminus (SIP1;2, SIP2;1).
The STS-based high-resolution physical contig consists of 124 BACs, and spans approximately 7.5 Mb as estimated from the number of BACs in the shortest tiling path and the average insert length of the BACs.
The shortest time frame assumes maximum speed without regard to overspeed warnings, a straight-line path, and no time allowed for maneuvering or slowing to aim and crash the airplane into its target.
This notion of difficulty is what Kolmogorov's theory formalized, stating that complexity was the length of the shortest definition (among all the possible definitions) of a given set.