normalizeMotif: Normalizes a PFM

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

View source: R/forground_wrapper.R

Description

This function normalizes a PFM and optionally adds pseudo-evidence to each entry of the matrix.

Usage

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normalizeMotif(pfm, pseudo = 0.01)

Arguments

pfm

An R matrix that represents a position frequency matrix

pseudo

Small numeric pseudo-value that is added to each entry in the PFM in order to ensure strictly positive entries. Default: pseudo = 0.01

Value

A normalized PFM

Examples

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# Load motif
motiffile = system.file("extdata", "x1.tab", package = "motifcounter")
motif = t(as.matrix(read.table(motiffile)))

# Normalize motif
new_motif = normalizeMotif(motif)

motifcounter documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 5:44 p.m.