CorreLogo: an online server for 3D sequence logos of RNA and DNA alignments.

ABSTRACT: We present an online server that generates a 3D representation of properties of user-submitted RNA or DNA alignments. The visualized properties are information of single alignment columns, mutual information of two alignment positions as well as the position-specific fraction of gaps. The nucleotide composition of both single columns and column pairs is visualized with the help of color-coded 3D bars labeled with letters. The server generates both VRML and JVX output that can be viewed with a VRML viewer or the JavaView applet, respectively. We show that combining these different features of an alignment into one 3D representation is helpful in identifying correlations between bases and potential RNA and DNA base pairs. Significant known correlations between the tRNA 3' anticodon cardinal

SUBMITTER: Bindewald E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1538790 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature