Category:ECO:0005531 ! motif discovery evidence

name: motif discovery evidence
def: "A type of multiple sequence alignment evidence based on a set of algorithms that infer over-represented motifs from a set of biological sequences returning one or more local multiple sequence alignment defining the inferred motifs." [ECO:SW, PMID:10812473, PMID:16845028, PMID:8211139]
is_a: ECO:0005555 ! multiple sequence alignment evidence
comment: Relationship type between sequences (e.g. orthologs from multiple genomes or co-expressed genes in the same genome) is not necessarily assumed. The local multiple sequence alignment is typically ungapped. A common application of motif discovery is to infer the binding motif of a given transcription factor (TF). This can be based on the results of a whole-genome expression analysis, assuming that co-expressed genes are co-regulated by the same TF, from peaks in ChIP-seq experiments with the TF, or from the comparative genomics analysis of the promoter regions of orthologs. {xref="PMID:19892760", xref="PMID:23032607"}