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Table 1 Properties of Transfac and Jaspar matrices: We removed matrices for which the sample size was normalized to 100 and no information about the actual number of samples was available, as well as matrices of length below 6 or sample size below 5.

From: Measuring similarities between transcription factor binding sites

Property

Transfac

Jaspar

Number of original matrices

694

108

Number of matrices after filtering

637

103

Min length

6

6

Max length

30

30

Median length

12

11

Min sample size

5

6

Max sample size

389

389

Median sample size

18

23

Min information content

3.6

5.7

Max information content

44.3

26.2

Median information content

12.8

11.6