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BMCBI
2006
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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
RECOMB
2008
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Fast, Alignment-Free, Conservation-Based Method for Transcription Factor Binding Site Discovery
As an increasing number of eukaryotic genomes are being sequenced, comparative studies aimed at detecting regulatory elements in intergenic sequences are becoming more prevalent. M...
Raluca Gordân, Leelavati Narlikar, Alexander...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
The Motif Tracking Algorithm
: The search for patterns or motifs in data represents a problem area of key interest to finance and economic researchers. In this paper we introduce the Motif Tracking Algorithm, ...
William O. Wilson, Phil Birkin, Uwe Aickelin
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
fREDUCE: Detection of degenerate regulatory elements using correlation with expression
Background: The precision of transcriptional regulation is made possible by the specificity of physical interactions between transcription factors and their cognate binding sites ...
Randy Z. Wu, Christina Chaivorapol, Jiashun Zheng,...
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 23 days ago
Predicting conserved protein motifs with Sub-HMMs
Background: Profile HMMs (hidden Markov models) provide effective methods for modeling the conserved regions of protein families. A limitation of the resulting domain models is th...
Kevin Horan, Christian R. Shelton, Thomas Girke