Figure 6

Ambiscript Mosaic highlights rotational symmetries in sequence alignments. As illustrated in Figure 3C, symmetries in the Ambiscript notation make it easy to identify palindromic patterns in genetic sequences. These patterns are further highlighted when consensus sequences are shaded and colored according the degree of diversity found among aligned sequence motifs. Consequently, conserved palindromic sequences are easily visualized in many of the E. coli binding motifs, previously identified by McGuire et al.[14], as patterns, which remain largely unchanged when rotated around a central pivot (black vertical line).