Measuring Similarity among Protein Sequences Using a New Descriptor

Table 13

The correlation and significance analysis between our similarity analysis results of ND5 protein sequences in Tables 9 and 7 in [33] and Table 3 in [15] and ClustalW similarity matrix in Table 12.

	Correlation coeff. (r) of our approach	t-value of our approach	Correlation coeff. (r) of [33]	t-value of [33]	Correlation coeff. (r) of [15] (Table 3)	t-value of [15] (Table 3)
Human	0.9159	6.0389	0.7819	3.3181	0.9419	7.4169
Gorilla	0.9062	5.6692	0.7630	3.1229	0.9363	7.0524
P. chimp	0.8811	4.9288	0.7856	3.3588	0.8755	4.7944
C. chimp	0.9345	6.9482	0.7808	3.3069	0.9448	7.6311
F. whale	0.9674	10.109	0.8360	4.0314	0.8146	3.7160
B. whale	0.9239	6.3875	0.8430	4.1463	0.6593	—
Rat	0.8048	3.5871	0.9213	6.2663	0.6479	—
Mouse	0.8112	3.6699	0.6391	—	0.6308	—
Opossum	0.6378	—	0.4299	—	0.4772	—