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About PCAPrincipal components analysis is a technique for examining the +

About PCA

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Principal components analysis is a technique for examining the structure of complex data sets. The components are a set of dimensions formed from the measured values in the data set, and the principle component is the one with the greatest magnitude, or length. The sets of @@ -52,26 +53,26 @@ of variation in the data set.

href="scorematrices.html#simplenucleotide">simple single nucleotide substitution matrix. The options available for calculation are given in the - Change Parameters menu.
Jalview allows - two types of PCA calculation. The default - Jalview PCA Calculation mode (indicated when - that option is ticked in the - Change Parameters menu) of the viewer - performs PCA on a matrix where elements in the upper diagonal give the - sum of scores for mutating in one direction, and the lower diagonal is - the sum of scores for mutating in the other. For protein substitution - models like BLOSUM62, this gives an asymmetric matrix, and a different - PCA to one produced with the method described in the paper by G. - Casari, C. Sander and A. Valencia. Structural Biology volume 2, no. 2, - February 1995 (Change Parameters menu.

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+ PCA Calculation modes
+ The default Jalview calculation mode + (indicated when Jalview PCA Calculation is + ticked in the Change Parameters menu) is to + perform a PCA on a matrix where elements in the upper diagonal give + the sum of scores for mutating in one direction, and the lower + diagonal is the sum of scores for mutating in the other. For protein + substitution models like BLOSUM62, this gives an asymmetric matrix, + and a different PCA to a matrix produced with the method described in the + paper by G. Casari, C. Sander and A. Valencia. Structural Biology + volume 2, no. 2, February 1995 (
pubmed) - and implemented at the SeqSpace server at the EBI. The original method - preconditions the matrix by multiplying it with its transpose, and - this mode is enabled by unchecking the - Jalview PCA Calculation option in the - Change Parameters menu. + and implemented at the SeqSpace server at the EBI. This method + preconditions the matrix by multiplying it with its transpose, and can be employed in the PCA viewer by unchecking the Jalview + PCA Calculation option in the Change + Parameters menu.

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The PCA Viewer

This is an interactive display of the sequences positioned within the similarity space, as points in a rotateable 3D scatterplot. The