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. 2018 Sep 5;3(5):e00327-18. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00327-18

TABLE 2 .

Agreement between BLAST and recalculated percent identities

BLAST
result
Recalculated percent identity cutoff applieda:
95 96 97 98 99 100
Hit 1 96.8b 97.8 99.0 99.68 99.90 100
Hit 2 1.4 1.0 0.5 0.18 0.07 0
Hit 3 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.04 0.01 0
Hit 4 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.03 0.01 0
Hit 5 0.7 0.5 0.2 0.07 0.01 0
a

Calculations were performed only on sequences above the listed recalculated percent identities.

b

For example, 96.8% of BLAST’s first hits also had the highest recalculated percent identity.