Are you familiar with the following? I don't have a personal experiance
with it yet.
asset.note (gcguser) Wed Feb 14 11:49:12 1996
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ASSET (Aligned Segment Statistical Evaluation Tool) version 1.0
Include 3 programs: asset, purge and scan. Each of these
programs require fasta formated input files.
The PURGE program removes closely related sequences from an input
file prior to running asset. This is important in order to reduce
input sequence redundancy. The command syntax for purge is:
purge <in_file> <score>
where <score> determines the maximum blosum62 relatedness score
between any two sequences in the output file (the output file is
created with the name <in_file>.b<score>). A score between 100 and
200 is recommended. The scan program scans a database for sequences
that contain motifs detected by asset. A paper describing the
details of the scan and purge programs is in preparation.
The ASSET program will produce a "scan file" of the locally aligned
segment blocks by using the -f<int> option; <int> specifies the
percentage of sequences in the input file that are required to
contain a motif before the corresponding motif block can be included
in the scan file. The scan file is given the name <in_file>.sn.
