comparative genomics motif search evidence

Term ID

ECO:0005534

Synonyms

Definition

A type of motif similarity evidence based on comparative genomics which uses a search method to scan a set of genomes for instances of a specific motif, and then applies a comparative criterion to analyze the collective strength of these predictions, based on the assumption that functional instances of the motif will be preserved by natural selection and their prediction will therefore be consistent across genomes. 10854408

References

Ontology

Evidence Ontology