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From: Using a color-coded ambigraphic nucleic acid notation to visualize conserved palindromic motifs within and across genomes

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Ambiscript Mosaic offers improvements over the traditional IUPAC and original Ambiscript nucleic acid notation. As with the orignal Ambiscrpt DNA Bold font, the Ambiscript Mosaic symbols facilitate reverse complementation and the derivation of ambiguity characters via compounded symbols. However, by using nested symbols rather than figure-ground-reversals to construct the eleven ambiguity characters, Ambiscript Mosaic also supports the creation of color-coded consensus sequences. Furthermore, when read from top to bottom, the nested Ambiscript Mosaic symbols correspond to the IUPAC characters C, T, A, and G (or "sea tag"), providing an easy mnemonic for the meaning of the ambigraphic symbols.

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BMC Genomics

ISSN: 1471-2164

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