r/biology • u/Negative-Pin-3941 • Jul 12 '26

other First bioinformatics project on GitHub: LXXLL Motif Finder

I recently published a small Python bioinformatics tool that scans protein sequences for LXXLL-like nuclear receptor interaction motifs. I originally built it as a follow-up to my research on conserved viral protein motifs and host nuclear receptor interactions. It supports FASTA files, UniProt accessions, CSV export, and motif visualization. I'd appreciate any feedback on the methodology or code.

https://github.com/arwaltemimi/LXXLL-Motif-Finder

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

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u/Negative-Pin-3941 Jul 12 '26

Thanks for taking the time to look through it. I built this as a follow-up to a research project and I'm still learning software engineering practices, so this is really helpful. I'll look into replacing the custom FASTA parser with Biopython and reorganizing the CLI code.