Buy License
Local Complexity Analyses
You can calculate local complexity for both DNA and protein sequences. The local complexity is a measure of the diversity in the composition of amino acids within a given range (window) of the sequence. CLC Protein Workbench uses the K2 algorithm for calculating local complexity [Wootton and Federhen, 1993].
You can make local complexity analyses for one or more sequences at a time.
The window size from which the complexity plot is calculated can be set individually for each analysis. As the window size represents the range of the sequence analyzed at a time, a higher number produces a less volatile graph.
The values of the complexity plot approach 1.0 as the distribution of amino acids become more complex.
Below are some of the view preferences included in CLC Protein Workbench:
- Set the frame, the X-axis and the Y-axis
- Set grid lines behind the graph
- Set the type of dot in the graph
- Set dot color.
- Set line width
- Set line color
