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BMCBI
2008
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Studying the functional conservation of cis-regulatory modules and their transcriptional output
Background: Cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) are distinct, genomic regions surrounding the target gene that can independently activate the promoter to drive transcription. The activa...
Denis C. Bauer, Timothy L. Bailey
RECOMB
2001
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Algorithms for phylogenetic footprinting
Phylogenetic footprinting is a comparative genomics approach for predicting transcription factor binding sites, where a set of orthologous regulatory regions are compared and short...
Mathieu Blanchette
BMCBI
2007
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HeliCis: a DNA motif discovery tool for colocalized motif pairs with periodic spacing
Background: Correct temporal and spatial gene expression during metazoan development relies on combinatorial interactions between different transcription factors. As a consequence...
Erik Larsson, Per Lindahl, Petter Mostad
BMCBI
2006
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Phylogeny based discovery of regulatory elements
Background: Algorithms that locate evolutionarily conserved sequences have become powerful tools for finding functional DNA elements, including transcription factor binding sites;...
Jason Gertz, Justin C. Fay, Barak A. Cohen
BMCBI
2006
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Bounded search for de novo identification of degenerate cis-regulatory elements
Background: The identification of statistically overrepresented sequences in the upstream regions of coregulated genes should theoretically permit the identification of potential ...
Jonathan M. Carlson, Arijit Chakravarty, Radhika S...