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BMCBI
2008
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Extracting transcription factor binding sites from unaligned gene sequences with statistical models
Background: Transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) are crucial in the regulation of gene transcription. Recently, chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by cDNA microarray hyb...
Chung-Chin Lu, Wei-Hao Yuan, Te-Ming Chen
ISMB
2000
13 years 6 months ago
A Statistical Method for Finding Transcription Factor Binding Sites
Understanding the mechanismsthat determine the regulation of geneexpression is an important and challenging problem. A fundamental subproblem is to identify DNA-bindingsites for u...
Saurabh Sinha, Martin Tompa
BMCBI
2005
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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...
BMCBI
2008
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Finding sequence motifs with Bayesian models incorporating positional information: an application to transcription factor bindin
Background: Biologically active sequence motifs often have positional preferences with respect to a genomic landmark. For example, many known transcription factor binding sites (T...
Nak-Kyeong Kim, Kannan Tharakaraman, Leonardo Mari...
BMCBI
2006
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Predicting transcription factor binding sites using local over-representation and comparative genomics
Background: Identifying cis-regulatory elements is crucial to understanding gene expression, which highlights the importance of the computational detection of overrepresented tran...
Matthieu Defrance, Hélène Touzet