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2004
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A Combined Model and a Varied Gibbs Sampling Algorithm Used for Motif Discovery
The conserved sequences in gene regulatory regions dominate gene regulation. Discovering these sequences and their functions is important in post genome era. A novel model is cons...
Xiaoming Wu, Bo Wang, Changxin Song, Jingzhi Cheng
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
GibbsST: a Gibbs sampling method for motif discovery with enhanced resistance to local optima
Background: Computational discovery of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) is a challenging but important problem of bioinformatics. In this study, improvement of a Gibbs sa...
Kazuhito Shida
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
rMotifGen: random motif generator for DNA and protein sequences
Background: Detection of short, subtle conserved motif regions within a set of related DNA or amino acid sequences can lead to discoveries about important regulatory domains such ...
Eric C. Rouchka, C. Timothy Hardin
BMCBI
2007
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Discriminative motif discovery in DNA and protein sequences using the DEME algorithm
Background: Motif discovery aims to detect short, highly conserved patterns in a collection of unaligned DNA or protein sequences. Discriminative motif finding algorithms aim to i...
Emma Redhead, Timothy L. Bailey
BMCBI
2008
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NestedMICA as an ab initio protein motif discovery tool
Background: Discovering overrepresented patterns in amino acid sequences is an important step in protein functional element identification. We adapted and extended NestedMICA, an ...
Mutlu Dogruel, Thomas A. Down, Tim J. P. Hubbard