Suppose you used the NCBI Blast server to look for a match
to a fruit-fly gene. Suppose further that the best
alignment contained this section of an alignment:


Hit from database: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXNFSTSQ

User sequence: SLEAEAAPASISPSNFSSSQ


What do the Xs signify?



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