Dear madame, dear sir, just a very brief question: I have uploaded 147,867 sequences (sequence count) with roughly 400 bp, but when comparing these sequences with the M5NR databse I get a total of 188,640 number of reads hit. how can I have more hits than uploaded sequences? The other databases, Genbank etc dont have this problem Thanks, for your time Mirjam -- (jun.) Prof. Dr. Mirjam Perner Microbiology& Biotechnology University of Hamburg room 3155/3156 Ohnhorststr. 18 22609 Hamburg Germany Tel.: ++49(0) 40 42816 444 (Monday-Thursday) Tel.: ++49(0) 40 42838 6006 (fridays) Fax: ++49(0) 40 42816 459 Email: [email protected] http://www.genmibio.de/html/ag_perner.html http://www.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/lexi/gsc1chem/Principal_Investigators_Proje...