This is the total number of sites in the primary sequence set where a single
motif occurs. You can choose limits for the minimum and maximum
number of occurrences that MEME will consider. If you have prior knowledge
about the number of occurrences that motifs have in your primary sequence set,
limiting MEME's search in this way can can increase the likelihood of
MEME finding true motifs.
MEME chooses the number of occurrences to report for each motif by
optimizing a heuristic function, restricting the number of
occurrences to the range you give here.
If you do not select one of these fields, MEME uses the following defaults
for the range of the number of motif sites, where "n" is the number of sequences in
the primary sequence set:
DistributionMinimumMaximum
Zero or One Occurrence per Sequencesqrt(n)n
One Occurrence per Sequencenn
Any Number of Repetitionssqrt(n)min(5*n, 600)