Table 3.

Irredundant vs. maximal patterns.

No.	s 1	s 2	|s1| = m	|s2| = m	m + n	Maximals	Irredundants	% Of irredundants
1.	1alo	1bjt	597	760	1357	≫16697	1256	≪7.5
2.	1qax	1cxp	316	466	782	8397	682	8.1
3.	1gai	1nmt	472	227	699	7037	612	8.7
4.	1cvu	1lgr	511	368	879	9014	787	8.7
5.	1gpe	1yrg	392	343	735	6853	653	9.5
6.	1qqj	3pcc	415	236	651	5090	566	11.1
7.	1bxk	1ofg	352	220	572	3549	489	13.8
8.	1ebf	2nac	169	188	357	1126	277	24.6
9.	1a03	1mho	90	88	178	257	108	42.0
10.	1gpt	1ayj	47	50	97	64	45	70.3

Number of irredundant and maximal common patterns over 10 pairs of protein sequences taken from experiments in Table 4. Rows are sorted according to the percentage of irredundants over the total number of maximal patterns.