Blastn: In The Scoring Parameters, What Does "Linear" Mean?

Question

[mschmid]

The title says everything: I someone able to explain to me, what the "linear" option in section "scoring parameters" does mean?

I understand the Existence/Extension costs, just not the "linear" option...

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

I believe that it means that the the score is is a linear function of the attribute that gets measured.

Other way to say that is linearly proportional: for example twice as long gaps will lead to twice as large penalty.