MEME - Introduction
THE MEME/MAST SYSTEM
Motif Discovery and Search
Version 3.0.14
Hosted by:
The MEME/MAST system allows you to
discover
motifs (highly conserved regions) in groups of related DNA or protein sequences using
MEME
and,
search
sequence databases using motifs using
MAST
.
The MEME/MAST system was developed by
Timothy Bailey
,
Charles Elkan
, and
Bill Grundy
at the
UCSD Computer Science and Engineering
department with input from
Michael Gribskov
at
the San Diego Supercomputer Center
.
MEME and MAST are described in detail in the
papers
available here.
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about MEME and MAST are given in the
MEME FAQ
and
MAST FAQ
.
You can see
sample MEME output
or
sample MAST output
.
Differences between the current release of the MEME/MAST system and earlier releases are described in the
release notes
.
You can
download
the MEME/MAST software and install it on your own computer. This will allow you to use many features that are not available with the interactive versions of MEME and MAST.
Meta-MEME
combines motif models from MEME into a hidden Markov model framework for use in searching sequence databases.
MEME and MAST are copyrighted software and can be
licensed
for commercial use.
Developed and maintained by: