id: ECO:0005532
name: consensus search evidence
def: "A type of motif similarity evidence where the motif is represented by a consensus sequence which incorporates the most frequent nucleotide at each position acting as a generic representative for the sequences in the alignment, and is compared to the genetic sequence for a perfect or imperfect match." [ECO:SW, PMID:15130839]
is_a: ECO:0000028 ! motif similarity evidence
comment: This technique is used to identify transcription factor binding sites by searching a bacterial genome for DNA regions resembling a given TF-binding motif. PMID: 17085555.
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