enoLOGOS: a versatile web tool for energy normalized sequence logos

Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jul 1;33(Web Server issue):W389-92. doi: 10.1093/nar/gki439.

Abstract

enoLOGOS is a web-based tool that generates sequence logos from various input sources. Sequence logos have become a popular way to graphically represent DNA and amino acid sequence patterns from a set of aligned sequences. Each position of the alignment is represented by a column of stacked symbols with its total height reflecting the information content in this position. Currently, the available web servers are able to create logo images from a set of aligned sequences, but none of them generates weighted sequence logos directly from energy measurements or other sources. With the advent of high-throughput technologies for estimating the contact energy of different DNA sequences, tools that can create logos directly from binding affinity data are useful to researchers. enoLOGOS generates sequence logos from a variety of input data, including energy measurements, probability matrices, alignment matrices, count matrices and aligned sequences. Furthermore, enoLOGOS can represent the mutual information of different positions of the consensus sequence, a unique feature of this tool. Another web interface for our software, C2H2-enoLOGOS, generates logos for the DNA-binding preferences of the C2H2 zinc-finger transcription factor family members. enoLOGOS and C2H2-enoLOGOS are accessible over the web at http://biodev.hgen.pitt.edu/enologos/.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acids / chemistry
  • Binding Sites
  • Computer Graphics
  • DNA-Binding Proteins / chemistry
  • DNA-Binding Proteins / metabolism
  • Internet
  • Sequence Alignment / methods*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods*
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface
  • Zinc Fingers

Substances

  • Amino Acids
  • DNA-Binding Proteins