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===Optimization===
Before going further, it is good to decide whether the results are satisfactory, or need optimization. Lets consider [[7bak]], a drug-target protease of SARS-CoV-2. A ConSurf run with all default settings left 10% of the residues with insufficient data<ref name="insufficientdata">When the confidence interval for a conservation value of an amino acid is too large, ConSurf reports "insufficient data" (uncertainty: yellow color). See [https://consurf.tau.ac.il/quick_help.php#RELIABILITY Position Specific Quality] and [https://consurf.tau.ac.il/overview.php#_Toc311131298 Confidence Interval] in the ConSurf documentation.</ref> (yellow color), and the diversity in the multiple sequence alignment (MSA) was too low (average pairwise distance 0.34), leaving conservation grades 2 and 3 almost unoccupied.


==Conservation of Specified Residues==
==Conservation of Specified Residues==