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BMCBI
2007
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MATLIGN: a motif clustering, comparison and matching tool
Background: Sequence motifs representing transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) are commonly encoded as position frequency matrices (PFM) or degenerate consensus sequences (CS)...
Matti Kankainen, Ari Löytynoja
BMCBI
2006
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Cis-motifs upstream of the transcription and translation initiation sites are effectively revealed by their positional disequili
Background: The discovery of cis-regulatory motifs still remains a challenging task even though the number of sequenced genomes is constantly growing. Computational analyses using...
Kenneth W. Berendzen, Kurt Stüber, Klaus Hart...
BMCBI
2007
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A survey of DNA motif finding algorithms
Background: Unraveling the mechanisms that regulate gene expression is a major challenge in biology. An important task in this challenge is to identify regulatory elements, especi...
Modan K. Das, Ho-Kwok Dai
RECOMB
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Finding motifs using random projections
motif discovery problem abstracts the task of discovering short, conserved sites in genomic DNA. Pevzner and Sze recently described a precise combinatorial formulation of motif di...
Jeremy Buhler, Martin Tompa
BMCBI
2010
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Fast motif recognition via application of statistical thresholds
Background: Improving the accuracy and efficiency of motif recognition is an important computational challenge that has application to detecting transcription factor binding sites...
Christina Boucher, James King