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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 WP runs a front-page piece driving home the study's applications to the Washington/Virginia region, noting that it reveals that D.C. men have nearly the shortest life span in the country, while men just across the Potomac in suburban Virginia have nearly the longest--a difference of 14.
When we use the 'merging with overlap' procedure, we also look for the greatest number of subrepeats, but the length of the most representative repeat should be closer to the shortest repeat in the class.
The most practical test may be the shortest, the three-question NET.
We have chosen defining sets that contain the shortest informative protein sequence in order to maximize the chance of producing single-domain profile objects.