biojs-stat-seqs

biojs-stat-seqs analyzes multiple biological sequences to calculate information content and nucleotide or amino acid frequency distributions for statistical characterization and visualization.


Key Features:

  • Multiple Sequence Analysis: Performs statistical analysis across multiple sequences to summarize dataset-level properties.
  • Information Content Analysis: Calculates information content to evaluate sequence variability and richness within positions or columns.
  • Frequency Distribution: Computes nucleotide or amino acid frequency distributions to characterize residue composition and highlight conserved positions.
  • Visualization of Statistical Properties: Produces visual representations of information content and frequency distributions for interpretation of sequence statistics.

Scientific Applications:

  • Comparative Genomics: Facilitates comparison of sequences from different organisms to support identification of evolutionary relationships.
  • Motif Discovery: Assists in identifying conserved motifs that may be involved in biological functions or regulatory mechanisms.
  • Data Quality Assessment: Helps assess sequence data quality by highlighting anomalies, biases, or unexpected composition patterns.

Methodology:

Leverages computational algorithms to process and visualize sequence data and integrates with other BioJS modules.

Topics

Details

License:
Apache-2.0
Tool Type:
library
Operating Systems:
Linux, Windows, Mac
Programming Languages:
JavaScript
Added:
9/27/2015
Last Updated:
11/25/2024

Operations

Data Inputs & Outputs

Statistical calculation

Publications

Yachdav G, Goldberg T, Wilzbach S, Dao D, Shih I, Choudhary S, Crouch S, Franz M, García A, García LJ, Grüning BA, Inupakutika D, Sillitoe I, Thanki AS, Vieira B, Villaveces JM, Schneider MV, Lewis S, Pettifer S, Rost B, Corpas M. Anatomy of BioJS, an open source community for the life sciences. eLife. 2015;4. doi:10.7554/elife.07009. PMID:26153621. PMCID:PMC4495654.

PMID: 26153621
PMCID: PMC4495654
Funding: - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC): EP/H043160/1

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