BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The relationship between osteopathic (COMLEX) and allopathic (USMLE) exam scores in not well described. We sought to describe the relationship between COMLEX and USMLE scores for osteopathic medical students who reported scores for both exams during application to internal medicine residency. METHODS Cross sectional study of 588 matched USMLE/COMLEX Step 1 scores and 24...

GNPKVKAH Here we discuss standard ways of assigning a score to each amino acid pair, i.e., to each possible column of a gap-free pairwise protein alignment. Examples of such scoring matrices include the PAM30, PAM70, BLOSUM80, BLOSUM62 and BLOSUM45 matrices that are available on NCBI’s blastp server. Such scores are appropriate for comparing two sequences about which we have no other informatio...

In the ranking of the teaching effectiveness of staff members through their student feedback scores, there can be a problem if it is perceived to be more difficult to obtain high scores in some courses than others. The result would be, therefore, that staff taking ‘difficult’ courses are disadvantaged. For example, it is often claimed that GEM and courses at the 1000 level are more difficult to...

GNPKVKAH Here we discuss standard ways of assigning a score to each amino acid pair, i.e., to each possible column of a gap-free pairwise protein alignment. Examples of such scoring matrices include the PAM30, PAM70, BLOSUM80, BLOSUM62 and BLOSUM45 matrices that are available on NCBI’s blastp server. Such scores are appropriate for comparing two sequences about which we have no other informatio...