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IJBRA
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Finding functional promoter motifs by computational methods: a word of caution
: The standard practice in the analysis of promoters is to select promoter regions of convenient length. This may lead to false results when searching for Transcription Factor Bind...
Rajesh Chowdhary, Limsoon Wong, Vladimir B. Bajic
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Computing DNA duplex instability profiles efficiently with a two-state model: trends of promoters and binding sites
Background: DNA instability profiles have been used recently for predicting the transcriptional start site and the location of core promoters, and to gain insight into promoter ac...
Miriam R. Kantorovitz, Zoi Rapti, Vladimir Gelev, ...
BMCBI
2007
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WeederH: an algorithm for finding conserved regulatory motifs and regions in homologous sequences
Background: This work addresses the problem of detecting conserved transcription factor binding sites and in general regulatory regions through the analysis of sequences from homo...
Giulio Pavesi, Federico Zambelli, Graziano Pesole
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
c-REDUCE: Incorporating sequence conservation to detect motifs that correlate with expression
Background: Computational methods for characterizing novel transcription factor binding sites search for sequence patterns or "motifs" that appear repeatedly in genomic ...
Katerina Kechris, Hao Li
ISAAC
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Local Gapped Subforest Alignment and Its Application in Finding RNA Structural Motifs
RNA molecules whose secondary structures contain similar substructures often have similar functions. Therefore, an important task in the study of RNA is to develop methods for disc...
Jesper Jansson, Ngo Trung Hieu, Wing-Kin Sung