GibbsCluster: unsupervised clustering and alignment of peptide sequences.

ABSTRACT: Receptor interactions with short linear peptide fragments (ligands) are at the base of many biological signaling processes. Conserved and information-rich amino acid patterns, commonly called sequence motifs, shape and regulate these interactions. Because of the properties of a receptor-ligand system or of the assay used to interrogate it, experimental data often contain multiple sequence motifs. GibbsCluster is a powerful tool for unsupervised motif discovery because it can simultaneously cluster and align peptide data. The GibbsCluster 2.0 presented here is an improved version incorporating insertion and deletions accounting for variations in motif length in the peptide input. In basic terms, the program takes as input a set of peptide sequences and clusters them into meaningful groups.

SUBMITTER: Andreatta M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5570237 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature