THE MEME/MAST SYSTEM
Motif Discovery and Search
Version 3.5.7

The MEME/MAST system allows you to

1. discover motifs (highly conserved regions) in groups of related DNA or protein sequences using MEME and,
2. search sequence databases using motifs using MAST.

• Authors: The MEME/MAST system was developed by Timothy Bailey, Charles Elkan, and Bill Noble at the UCSD Computer Science and Engineering department with input from Michael Gribskov at Purdue University.
• Publications: MEME and MAST are described in detail in the papers available here.
• FAQ: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about MEME and MAST are given in the GENERAL FAQ.
• User Forum: Visit the MEME User Forum for online discussions with the MEME support team memebers and other MEME users.
• Email support: Contact us if you have questions that are not answered in the FAQ or User Forum.
• Sample Output: You can see sample MEME output or sample MAST output.
• Release Notes: Differences between the current release of the MEME/MAST system and earlier releases are described in the release notes .
• Downloads: You can download the MEME/MAST software and install it on your own computer. This will allow you to use many features that are not available with the interactive versions of MEME and MAST.
• License: MEME and MAST are copyrighted software and can be licensed for commercial use.
• Meta-MEME: Meta-MEME combines motif models from MEME into a hidden Markov model framework for use in searching sequence databases.