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BMCBI
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
WeederH: an algorithm for finding conserved regulatory motifs and regions in homologous sequences
Background: This work addresses the problem of detecting conserved transcription factor binding sites and in general regulatory regions through the analysis of sequences from homo...
Giulio Pavesi, Federico Zambelli, Graziano Pesole
BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 7 months ago
An Approach to Selecting Putative RNA Motifs Using MDL Principle
The history of molecular biology is punctuated by a series of discoveries demonstrating the surprising breadth of biological roles of ribonucleic acid (RNA). An ensemble of evoluti...
Mohammad Anwar, Marcel Turcotte
BMCBI
2005
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13 years 5 months ago
Ab initio identification of putative human transcription factor binding sites by comparative genomics
Background: Understanding transcriptional regulation of gene expression is one of the greatest challenges of modern molecular biology. A central role in this mechanism is played b...
Davide Corà, Carl Herrmann, Christoph Diete...
CIAC
2010
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
An Algorithmic Framework for Motif Discovery Problems in Weighted Sequences
A weighted sequence is a string in which a set of characters may appear at each position with respective probabilities of occurrence. A common task is to locate a given motif in a ...
Hui Zhang, Qing Guo, Costas S. Iliopoulos
RECOMB
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Mining protein family specific residue packing patterns from protein structure graphs
Finding recurring residue packing patterns, or spatial motifs, that characterize protein structural families is an important problem in bioinformatics. To this end, we apply a nov...
Jun Huan, Wei Wang 0010, Deepak Bandyopadhyay, Jac...