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- Title
Improved similarity scores for comparing motifs.
- Authors
Tanaka, Emi; Bailey, Timothy; Grant, Charles E; Noble, William Stafford; Keich, Uri
- Abstract
A question that often comes up after applying a motif finder to a set of co-regulated DNA sequences is whether the reported putative motif is similar to any known motif. While several tools have been designed for this task, Habib et al. pointed out that the scores that are commonly used for measuring similarity between motifs do not distinguish between a good alignment of two informative columns (say, all-A) and one of two uninformative columns. This observation explains why tools such as Tomtom occasionally return an alignment of uninformative columns which is clearly spurious. To address this problem, Habib et al. suggested a new score [Bayesian Likelihood 2-Component (BLiC)] which uses a Bayesian information criterion to penalize matches that are also similar to the background distribution.
- Publication
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2011, Vol 27, Issue 12, p1603
- ISSN
1367-4811
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btr257