Figure 5

Motif p-values on synthetic data. For a randomly generated set of 20 sequences of 350 codons, copies of a motif were overwritten onto random positions within the sequences. CodingMotif and ideal z-score based p-values as a function of the number of inserted copies were calculated. This procedure was performed 10 times for each of the 4096 possible 6-mers. CodingMotif plotted values indicate average and standard deviation of log p-values. Z-score plotted values indicate the value of the erfc function when applied to the average z-score. Standard deviations of z-score based p-values were similar to those of CodingMotif (data not shown).