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If, on the other hand, it is a matter of native speakers of English grappling with the task of acquiring a sophisticated knowledge of German or Russian, then difficulties associated with dictionaries will be of a lesser order, but there will still be many occasions on which such learners will, by reflex action, stretch out a hand to grab hold of a dictionary that simply does not exist!
A sequence was chosen for alignment (for a given region) if it shared at least 50% identity over a 30 amino acid stretch or 65 % identity over a 20 amino acid stretch, or over 90% identity over a 10 amino acid stretch with the template sequence.
For nine months at a stretch, they are somewhere else.
You can stretch out, glance around the room, go to the toilet, read a newspaper--and even if you don't, you know you have the option.
This milieu isn't much of a stretch for the French director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who (with Marc Caro) made the squishy horror picture Delicatessen (1991) and City of Lost Children (1995), a surreal hybrid of Terry Gilliam and David Lynch.