Alphabet
:: DESCRIPTION
Alphabet takes a database of aligned protein sequences in BLOCKS+ format and examines the alignments column-wise looking for groups of amino acids that co-occur in columns more frequently than expected based on overall amino acid composition. These groups of amino acids can form a reduced alphabet for building sequence motifs (eMOTIFs) or for detecting correlations between columns of amino acids (MCSeq).
:DEVELOPER
The Brutlag Bioinformatics Group
:: SCREENSHOTS
N/A
:: REQUIREMENTS
:: DOWNLOAD
Alphabet
:: MORE INFORMATION
Citation:
Wu, T. D. and Brutlag, D. L. (1996).
Discovering Empirically Conserved Amino Acid Substitution Groups in Databases of Protein Families.
ISMB-96, 3, 230-240.