Question

Which of the following about MEME is untrue?

(a) It is a Web resource for performing local MSAs (Multiple Sequence Alignment) by the above expectation maximization method is the program MEME

(b) It stands for Multiple EM for Motif Elicitation

(c) It was developed at developed at the University of California at San Diego Supercomputing Center

(d) The Web page has multiple versions for searching blocks by an EM algorithm

The question was asked in an online quiz.

My enquiry is from Statistical Methods for Aiding Alignment in section Multiple Sequence Alignment of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

The correct choice is (d) The Web page has multiple versions for searching blocks by an EM algorithm

The best explanation: The Web page for two versions of MEME, ParaMEME, a Web program that searches for blocks by an EM algorithm (Described below), and a similar program MetaMEME (which searches for profiles using HMMs, described below).The Motif Alignment and Search Tool (MAST) for searching through databases for matches to motifs.