WebLogo¶

Description¶

WebLogo is a web based application designed to make the generation of sequence logos easy and painless. WebLogo has featured in over 150 scientific publications. Sequence logos are a graphical representation of an amino acid or nucleic acid multiple sequence alignment developed by Tom Schneider and Mike Stephens. Each logo consists of stacks of symbols, one stack for each position in the sequence. The overall height of the stack indicates the sequence conservation at that position, while the height of symbols within the stack indicates the relative frequency of each amino or nucleic acid at that position. In general, a sequence logo provides a richer and more precise description of, for example, a binding site, than would a consensus sequence.

Environment Modules¶

Run module spider weblogo to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables¶

HPC_WEBLOGO_DIR - installation directory
HPC_WEBLOGO_BIN - executable directory

Citation¶

If you publish research that uses weblogo you have to cite it as follows: Crooks GE, Hon G, Chandonia JM, Brenner SE WebLogo: A sequence logo generator, Genome Research, 14:1188-1190, (2004)

Schneider TD, Stephens RM. 1990. Sequence Logos: A New Way to Display Consensus Sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 18:6097-6100

Categories¶

biology, sequencing, graphics