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BMCBI
2007
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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
NN
2006
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Self-organizing neural networks to support the discovery of DNA-binding motifs
Identification of the short DNA sequence motifs that serve as binding targets for transcription factors is an important challenge in bioinformatics. Unsupervised techniques from t...
Shaun Mahony, Panayiotis V. Benos, Terry J. Smith,...
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
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
BMCBI
2006
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EMD: an ensemble algorithm for discovering regulatory motifs in DNA sequences
Background: Understanding gene regulatory networks has become one of the central research problems in bioinformatics. More than thirty algorithms have been proposed to identify DN...
Jianjun Hu, Yifeng D. Yang, Daisuke Kihara
RECOMB
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Study of Accessible Motifs and RNA Folding Complexity
mRNA molecules are folded in the cells and therefore many of their substrings may actually be inaccessible to protein and microRNA binding. The need to apply an accessability crite...
Ydo Wexler, Chaya Ben-Zaken Zilberstein, Michal Zi...