From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add r-motifrg. Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:59:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160406191701.GF6333@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48026) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1apXgl-0005Tx-KJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 04:59:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1apXgi-0002dj-Df for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 04:59:19 -0400 Received: from venus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.30]:44106) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1apXgi-0002dY-4h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 04:59:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160406191701.GF6333@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel Leo Famulari writes: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 05:33:24PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> From 82d9056a23f72d87aa8baa90398695aefea55879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Ricardo Wurmus >> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:16:17 +0100 >> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-motifrg. >> >> * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (r-motifrg): New variable. > > LGTM! > > I'm curious, is this for finding patterns "fuzzily"? Is that what is > meant by motif? A sequence motif is a pattern of nucleotides, and they are notated in a similar fashion to regular expressions for text. Unlike regular expressions, they are mostly used to describe a recurring or conserved pattern, not so much to search for it. Sequence logos are a graphical representation of such motifs or sequence patterns, indicating possible sequences and the relative frequency of each possible letter. ~~ Ricardo