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Table 1: and consensus information for sequence logos.

Name	Rs	SD	CON	Consensus	From	To
	bits	bits	bits
donor	7.9	0.0	16	NAGGTAAGTN	-3	+6
acceptor	9.3	0.0	29	NNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTYTNCAGGN	-25	+2
random	0.3	2.0	49	NSCNGNNNNAGTNNNACTNTANGATTTNCNANATTCAANCN	-20	+20
repa	24.5	0.6	36	ATGTGTGCTGGAGGGAAA	-1	+16
-10	5.2	0.0	12	TATAAT	-12	-7

Rs is ; SD is the standard deviation of Rs (to one decimal place); CON is the consensus information. The range of the site used is shown in columns From and To. The lowest frequency for using a base in each consensus was 0.4 and the consensus was computed using the program consensus (version 1.16, http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/delila/consensus.html).

Figure 1: Sequence logos [Schneider & Stephens, 1990] for human donor and acceptor splice junctions [Stephens & Schneider, 1992] compared to the consensus sequence for both sites. Source: Adapted from [Stephens & Schneider, 1992].

Figure 2: Sequence walkers [Schneider, 1997b] for a human acceptor site in the iduronidase synthetase gene and a mutation (indicated by an arrow). On the top sequence, the normal end of exon 4 is shown by a bracket and dashed line. The vertical rectangle on a sequence walker is the `zero base' used to identify the location of the walker. The vertical rectangles also indicate a scale from to bits. A 12.7 bit acceptor at 5154 directs splicing to the correct location. Source: Adapted from [Rogan et al., 1998].

Figure 3: Sequence logo for random sequences.

Error bars, shown by I beams, indicate one standard deviation of the stack height. Note that a small-sample correction [Schneider et al., 1986] suppresses the stack height so that a position such as , which is 50% C and 50% G, is lower than 1 bit. The correction is needed to counter a statistical bias that causes an apparent information to appear when one substitutes frequencies for probabilities in Shannon's equation [Schneider et al., 1986,Miller, 1955,Basharin, 1959]. The same effect makes one tend to see patterns where there are none. The consensus sequence on the bottom was chosen from positions that have 50% or more of one base. S is the two-letter code for C or G.

Figure 4: Region upstream of the tgt/sec promoter of E. coli analyzed by Fis sequence walkers. The information for each Fis site was computed from models that are 21 bases wide ( to ) but only the range to is shown by walkers. The sine waves represent major (peaks) and minor (valley) grooves faced by the Fis protein. Source: Adapted from [Schneider, 1997b].

Figure 5: Sequence logo for RepA binding sites.

Error bars indicate standard deviations of the entire stack height. Source: Adapted from [Schneider, 2001].

Figure 6: Sequence logo for the region of E. coli promoters.

The promoters were from the Lisser-Margalit database [Lisser & Margalit, 1993]. The dashed and solid boxes show the regions opened by the polymerase, while the arrow shows the start points of transcription. Source: Adapted from [Schneider, 2001].

Figure 7: Consensus versus .

The information for the 5 sequence logos in figures 1, 3, 5, and 6 was graphed by comparing the information content () to the information content of the corresponding consensus sequence. is the average information in a set of binding sites. It is also the summed area under the sequence logo. The line at 45 represents equality between the two measures. The data are summarized in Table 1.