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The program
employs Karlin-Altschul
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statistics, which
relates the score of an HSP
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to the expected
frequency of its occurrence
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The frequency
depends on the lengths of the
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query and
database sequences, and the size
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of the sequence
alphabet
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The expected
frequency of a score is
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represented by
the E parameter
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