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BMCBI
2007
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PlnTFDB: an integrative plant transcription factor database
Background: Transcription factors (TFs) are key regulatory proteins that enhance or repress the transcriptional rate of their target genes by binding to specific promoter regions ...
Diego Mauricio Riaño-Pachón, Sloboda...
BMCBI
2007
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Improved benchmarks for computational motif discovery
Background: An important step in annotation of sequenced genomes is the identification of transcription factor binding sites. More than a hundred different computational methods h...
Geir Kjetil Sandve, Osman Abul, Vegard Walseng, Fi...
BMCBI
2006
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Analysis of promoter regions of co-expressed genes identified by microarray analysis
Background: The use of global gene expression profiling to identify sets of genes with similar expression patterns is rapidly becoming a widespread approach for understanding biol...
Srinivas Veerla, Mattias Höglund
BMCBI
2006
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Design of a combinatorial DNA microarray for protein-DNA interaction studies
Background: Discovery of precise specificity of transcription factors is an important step on the way to understanding the complex mechanisms of gene regulation in eukaryotes. Rec...
Julian Mintseris, Michael B. Eisen
BMCBI
2006
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Beyond microarrays: Finding key transcription factors controlling signal transduction pathways
Background: Massive gene expression changes in different cellular states measured by microarrays, in fact, reflect just an "echo" of real molecular processes in the cell...
Alexander E. Kel, Nico Voss, Ruy Jauregui, Olga V....
CCE
2008
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Identification of regulatory mechanisms of the hepatic response to thermal injury
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the hypothesis that a systems biology approach can be developed such that a set of transcription factors, relevant to burn-induced inflamm...
Eric Yang, Timothy Maguire, Martin L. Yarmush, Fra...
BMCBI
2008
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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
BMCBI
2008
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Assessment of composite motif discovery methods
Background: Computational discovery of regulatory elements is an important area of bioinformatics research and more than a hundred motif discovery methods have been published. Tra...
Kjetil Klepper, Geir Kjetil Sandve, Osman Abul, Jo...
BMCBI
2008
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CORE_TF: a user-friendly interface to identify evolutionary conserved transcription factor binding sites in sets of co-regulated
Background: The identification of transcription factor binding sites is difficult since they are only a small number of nucleotides in size, resulting in large numbers of false po...
Matthew S. Hestand, Michiel van Galen, Michel P. V...
BMCBI
2007
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Bioinformatics analysis of the early inflammatory response in a rat thermal injury model
Background: Thermal injury is among the most severe forms of trauma and its effects are both local and systemic. Response to thermal injury includes cellular protection mechanisms...
Eric Yang, Timothy Maguire, Martin L. Yarmush, Fra...