On the topic of bug-fixing: "It took 15 years for anyone to notice errors in the ubiquitous BLOSUM62 amino acid substitution matrix used for protein sequence alignment". Even weirder, this bug makes the results better. https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0308-274 #softwarecarpentry #bugs #bioinformatics
BLOSUM62 miscalculations improve search performance - Nature Biotechnology

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