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RECOMB
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Improved Pattern-Driven Algorithms for Motif Finding in DNA Sequences
Abstract. In order to guarantee that the optimal motif is found, traditional pattern-driven approaches perform an exhaustive search over all candidate motifs of length l. We develo...
Sing-Hoi Sze, Xiaoyan Zhao
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Fast-Find: A novel computational approach to analyzing combinatorial motifs
Background: Many vital biological processes, including transcription and splicing, require a combination of short, degenerate sequence patterns, or motifs, adjacent to defined seq...
Micah Hamady, Erin Peden, Rob Knight, Ravinder Sin...
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
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
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
2005
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13 years 5 months ago
GANN: Genetic algorithm neural networks for the detection of conserved combinations of features in DNA
Background: The multitude of motif detection algorithms developed to date have largely focused on the detection of patterns in primary sequence. Since sequence-dependent DNA struc...
Robert G. Beiko, Robert L. Charlebois