[bionet.software] Finding matches to consensus sequences

Ethan.Hack@newcastle.ac.uk (04/26/91)

I am looking for a program that would identify approximate matches to
a published short consensus sequence, such as a ribosome binding site,
within a larger sequence.  Since this must be a common problem, I
suspect I am missing something obvious.  The only thing I could find
in UWGCG is a program that creates its own consensus sequence from a
database; I have also come across a program that finds exact matches.

The ideal would be a programme that estimates the probability of the
match occurring by chance.

Thanks in advance for information anyone can provide.

Ethan Hack
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, The University,
Newcastle upon Tyne  NE1 7RU, England