Table 1.
Weight distribution properties.
| (ℓ, d) | μ m | μ d |  |
 |
α m | α d | n | μ m | μ d | |
|
α m | α d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (15, 4) | 794 | 1439 | 84 | 84 | 989 | 1243 | 15 | 432 | 980 | 52 | 60 | 552 | 840 |
| (16, 5) | 850 | 1651 | 86 | 102 | 1050 | 1413 | 20 | 794 | 1439 | 84 | 84 | 989 | 1243 |
| (18, 6) | 899 | 2204 | 89 | 140 | 1106 | 1878 | 25 | 1529 | 2250 | 129 | 110 | 1829 | 1994 |
| (25, 8) | 954 | 2670 | 111 | 175 | 1212 | 2262 | 30 | 1845 | 3263 | 196 | 169 | 2300 | 2869 |
| (28, 9) | 1024 | 3230 | 152 | 199 | 1378 | 2767 | 35 | 2240 | 4523 | 246 | 213 | 2812 | 4027 |
| (30, 11) | 1069 | 3882 | 169 | 245 | 1462 | 3312 | 40 | 3709 | 6110 | 389 | 275 | 4613 | 5460 |
Data illustrating the change to the mean and standard deviation of the weight of a random motif set and the weight of a random decoy set as the values of ℓ, d, and n increase. On the left the number of strings is fixed at 20 and on the right the values (ℓ, d) are fixed at (15, 4).