Answer to Question #191309 in Molecular Biology for Kwanele Sulelo

Question

Given the two amino acids below, perform a pairwise alignment using the FASTA method. 

Sequence1  AKDMTGPNL

Sequence2 LDMTGPNAK

In the hashing table what is the offset value for Leucine?

Answer 1

A hash table is a type of data structure that stores key-value pairs. The key is sent to a hash function that performs arithmetic operations on it. The result (commonly called the hash value or hash) is the index of the key-value pair in the hash table.