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A similarity ring for amino acids is obtained by reordering the rows and columns of their substitution probability matrix so as to minimize the variance of the matric elements about the main diagonal.
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Argyle, E. A similarity ring for amino acids based on their evolutionary substitution rates. Origins Life Evol Biosphere 10, 357–360 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00928308
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