Table 2.
Sets of orthologous genes used to discover protein motifs
| Thermophiles | Mesophiles | ||
| organism | gene | organism | gene |
| Archaeoglobus fulgidus | AF0373 | Saccharomyces cerevisiae | YER148w |
| Aeropyrum pernix | APE1862 | Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 | VNG2243G |
| Methanococcus jannaschii | MJ0507 | Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 | VNG7031 |
| Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum | MTH1627 | Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 | VNG7038 |
| Pyrococcus abyssi | PAB1726 | Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 | VNG7100 |
| Pyrococcus horikoshii | PH1009 | Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 | VNG7114 |
| Thermoplasma volcanium | TVN1394 | Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 | VNG7171 |
| Thermoplasma acidophilum | Ta0199 | Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 | VNG6037G |
| Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 | VNG6050G | ||
| Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 | VNG6140G | ||
| Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 | VNG6438G | ||
| Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 | VNG6476G | ||
The TATA-box binding proteins shown in the table were used by La et al. [8] to illustrate a discriminative motif discovery approach.