UNLABELLED ESTminer is a collection of programs that use expressed sequence tag (EST) data from inbred genomes to identify unique genes within gene families. The algorithm utilizes Cap3 to perform an initial clustering of related EST sequences to produce a consensus sequence of a gene family. These consensus sequences are then used to collect all ESTs in the original EST library that are relate...

UNLABELLED TERMINUS is a set of tools to map telomeres on draft sequences of whole genome shotgun sequencing projects. It mines raw sequence reads (from a trace archive) for telomeric reads, assembles them into contigs representing individual chromosome ends and BLASTs the resulting consensus sequences against the genome assembly to identify telomere-proximal genomic contigs. Finally, it estima...

Bacillus clausii TnrA transcription factor is required for global nitrogen regulation. In order to obtain anoverview of gene regulation by TnrA in B. clausii KSMK16, the entire genome of B. clausii was screened forthe consensus sequence, 5’-TGTNAN7TNACA-3’ known as the TnrA box, and 13 transcription units werefound containing a putative TnrA box. The TnrA targets identified in...

The previously presented consensus sequence for eukaryotic translation initiation sites by Kozak was derived substantially from vertebrate mRNA sequences. Drosophila nuclear genes exhibit a significantly different translation start consensus sequence. These differences probably do not represent mechanistic differences in translation initiation inasmuch as both taxa exhibit identical preferences...

Topoisomerase II, purified from chicken erythrocytes, was reacted with a large number of different DNA fragments and cleavages were catalogued in the presence and absence of drugs that stabilize the cleavage intermediate. Cleavages were sequenced to derive a consensus for topoisomerase II that predicts catalytic sites. The consensus is: (sequence; see text) where N is any base and cleavage occu...

During studies of kinase phosphorylation, not all functional kinase phosphorylation may be found using consensus sequence patterns. This type of phosphorylation is termed 'non-consensus' or 'cryptic' phosphorylation. Results presented here based on molecular dynamics of short peptides show that protein kinases may phosphorylate not only established consensus sequences (reading a sequence from N...

We give a probabilistic algorithm for Consensus Sequence, a NP-complete subproblem of motif recognition, that can be described as follows: given set of l-length sequences, determine if there exists a sequence that has Hamming distance at most d from every sequence. We demonstrate that distance between a randomly selected majority sequence and a consensus sequence decreases as the size of the da...

N-Linked glycosylation is a post-translational event whereby carbohydrates are added to secreted proteins at the consensus sequence Asn-Xaa-Ser/Thr, where Xaa is any amino acid except proline. Some consensus sequences in secreted proteins are not glycosylated, indicating that consensus sequences are necessary but not sufficient for glycosylation. In order to understand the structural rules for ...

is one of the major open problems in computational molecular biology. The purpose of this study was to provide a new method, PAC (Progressive Alignment with Consensus Sequences), for calculation of multiple amino acid sequence alignments. In PAC, multiple alignments are built by the successive application of pairwise alignment algorithms; the distance between two groups is defined as the distan...

Sequence analysis using profiles of RNA sequence and secondary structure consensus Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are retained on all copies. Infernal is licensed and freely distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3). For a copy of the License, see