JASPAR Motif

class lightmotif.JasparMotif

A motif loaded from a JASPAR or JASPAR16 file.

The JASPAR database stores motifs with a FASTA-like header line containing the motif name and description, and one line per matrix column prefixed by the alphabet symbol that contains the count matrix.

counts

The count matrix for this motif.

This may be None if the motif was loaded from a format that does not store counts but frequencies, such as the uniprobe format.

Type:

CountMatrix or None

description

The description of the motif, if any.

Type:

str or None

name

An optional name for the motif.

Type:

str or None

protein

True if the motif is a protein motif.

Type:

bool

pssm

The scoring matrix for this motif.

Type:

ScoringMatrix

pwm

The weight matrix for this motif.

Type:

WeightMatrix