Table 2.

Dissimilarity to Literature Motifs and Information Content

Method/criterion	Dissimilarity	Information content
RAP	0.197	0.992
Seed-and-Wobble	0.201	1.330
RankMotif++	0.222	0.884
BEEML-PBM	0.232	0.689

We calculated Euclidean distances between PWMs learned by each method and the corresponding matrices in JASPAR and ScerTF (51 mouse and 58 yeast PWMs, respectively). The table shows average distance for each method. Information content averages are calculated for the PWMs learned by each method.