page_title: Sequence logo
section_title: Consensus logo
hierarchical_section_title: Sequence logo / Consensus logo
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a sequence logo of the LexA-binding motif of Gram-positive bacteria. The logo was created from a list of experimentally-reported LexA-binding sites using the Weblogo server (http://weblogo.berkeley.edu/). At each position, the height of the stack represents the information content (see Information theory) of the position, while the height of each letter is proportional to its frequency at that position in the collection of sites
context_page_description: In bioinformatics, a sequence logo is a graphical representation of the sequence conservation of nucleotides or amino acids.
  A sequence logo is created from a collection of aligned sequences and depicts the consensus sequence and diversity of the sequences.
  Sequence logos are frequently used to depict sequence characteristics such as protein-binding sites in DNA or functional units in proteins.
context_section_description: A consensus logo is a simplified variation of a sequence logo that can be embedded in text format.
  Like a sequence logo, a consensus logo is created from a collection of aligned protein or DNA/RNA sequences and conveys information about the conservation of each position of a sequence motif or sequence alignment
  . However, a consensus logo displays only conservation information, and not explicitly the frequency information of each nucleotide or amino acid at each position. Instead of a stack made of several characters, denoting the relative frequency of each character, the consensus logo depicts the degree of conservation of each position using the height of the consensus character at that position.
caption: A sequence logo for the LexA-binding motif of several Gram-positive species.
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