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BMCBI
2006
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Phylogeny based discovery of regulatory elements
Background: Algorithms that locate evolutionarily conserved sequences have become powerful tools for finding functional DNA elements, including transcription factor binding sites;...
Jason Gertz, Justin C. Fay, Barak A. Cohen
BMCBI
2006
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Modelling the network of cell cycle transcription factors in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Background: Reverse-engineering regulatory networks is one of the central challenges for computational biology. Many techniques have been developed to accomplish this by utilizing...
Shawn Cokus, Sherri Rose, David Haynor, Niels Gr&o...
BMCBI
2006
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TF Target Mapper: A BLAST search tool for the identification of Transcription Factor target genes
Background: In the current era of high throughput genomics a major challenge is the genome-wide identification of target genes for specific transcription factors. Chromatin immuno...
Sebastiaan Horsman, Michael J. Moorhouse, Victor C...
BIOINFORMATICS
2006
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Probabilistic inference of transcription factor concentrations and gene-specific regulatory activities
Motivation Quantitative estimation of the regulatory relationship between transcription factors and genes is a fundamental stepping stone when trying to develop models of cellular...
Guido Sanguinetti, Neil D. Lawrence, Magnus Rattra...
BIOINFORMATICS
2006
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A probabilistic dynamical model for quantitative inference of the regulatory mechanism of transcription
Motivation Quantitative estimation of the regulatory relationship between transcription factors and genes is a fundamental stepping stone when trying to develop models of cellular...
Guido Sanguinetti, Magnus Rattray, Neil D. Lawrenc...
ENGL
2008
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Threshold for Positional Weight Matrix
In biological sequence research, the positional weight matrix (PWM) is often used to search for putative transcription factor binding sites. A set of experimentally verified oligon...
Yunlian Pan, Sieu Phan
ALMOB
2006
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Analysis of computational approaches for motif discovery
Recently, we performed an assessment of 13 popular computational tools for discovery of transcription factor binding sites (M. Tompa, N. Li, et al., "Assessing Computational ...
Nan Li, Martin Tompa
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
BMCBI
2007
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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
2010
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An intuitionistic approach to scoring DNA sequences against transcription factor binding site motifs
Background: Transcription factors (TFs) control transcription by binding to specific regions of DNA called transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs). The identification of TFBSs ...
Fernando Garcia-Alcalde, Armando Blanco, Adrian J....