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Table 1 The top 10 most significant dimers (column 1). Dimers searched for had word lengths 4–5 and a spacer 3–30. Coding sequence was not considered. Listed are the number of occurrences in the dataset (column 2) and the statistical significance -log10 P (column 3), with P calculated from Eq. 2.

From: Genome wide identification of regulatory motifs in Bacillus subtilis

Dimer

Number observed

Significance

ttgaN20ataat

48

21.1

gccgcN11gcggc

10

15.9

ggtggN3cgcg

10

14.6

ttgaN19tata

70

14.5

gaaacN16Cgta

17

14.4

ttgaN21taat

58

13.8

agggtN4ccgcg

8

13.7

gccgcN12Cggc

12

13.7

ttgaN23ataa

75

13.6

ttgacN19ataat

18

13.6