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Re: [PATCH] Add r-motifrg.
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: [PATCH] Add r-motifrg. |
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Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:59:02 +0200 |
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 05:33:24PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> From 82d9056a23f72d87aa8baa90398695aefea55879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:16:17 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-motifrg.
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>> * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (r-motifrg): New variable.
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> LGTM!
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> I'm curious, is this for finding patterns "fuzzily"? Is that what is
> meant by motif?
A sequence motif is a pattern of nucleotides, and they are notated in a
similar fashion to regular expressions for text. Unlike regular
expressions, they are mostly used to describe a recurring or conserved
pattern, not so much to search for it. Sequence logos are a graphical
representation of such motifs or sequence patterns, indicating possible
sequences and the relative frequency of each possible letter.
~~ Ricardo