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What is the width parameter?

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What is the width parameter?

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The width is the total number of positions in the outputted motifs. That is, it is the sum of the wildcard as well as the non-wildcard positions (for example, the motif xRxRxxSxPxxxx has a width of 13, while the motif xxxSDxE has a width of 7). Since there is a fixed central residue, the width should always be an odd number. Most protein motifs are on the range of 6-8 amino acids long, so our default value of 13 usually captures most of this information.

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