Measuring Similarity among Protein Sequences Using a New Descriptor

Table 12

The similarity distance for nine different species of ND5 proteins calculated by the ClustalW.

	Human	Gorilla	P. chimp	C. chimp	F. whale	B. whale	Rat	Mouse	Opossum
Human	0	10.7	7.1	6.9	41	41.3	50.2	48.9	50.4
Gorilla		0	9.7	9.9	42.7	42.4	51.4	49.9	54
P. chimp			0	5.1	40.1	40.1	50.2	48.9	50.1
C. chimp				0	40.4	40.4	50.8	49.6	51.4
F. whale					0	3.5	45.3	46.8	52.7
B. whale						0	45	45.9	52.7
Rat							0	25.9	54
Mouse								0	50.8
Opossum									0