MotifCluster: an interactive online tool for clustering and visualizing sequences using shared motifs.
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SUBMITTER: Hamady M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2575518 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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MotifCluster: an interactive online tool for clustering and visualizing sequences using shared motifs.
Hamady Micah M Widmann Jeremy J Copley Shelley D SD Knight Rob R
Genome biology 20080815 8
MotifCluster finds related motifs in a set of sequences, and clusters the sequences into families using the motifs they contain. MotifCluster, at http://bmf.colorado.edu/motifcluster, lets users test whether proteins are related, cluster sequences by shared conserved motifs, and visualize motifs mapped onto trees, sequences and three-dimensional structures. We demonstrate MotifCluster's accuracy using gold-standard protein superfamilies; using recommended settings, families were assigned to the ...[more]
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