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Phylogenetic Motif Detection by Expectation-Maximization on Evolutionary Mixtures

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Phylogenetic Motif Detection by Expectation-Maximization on Evolutionary Mixtures
ct The preferential conservation of transcription factor binding sites implies that non-coding sequence data from related species will prove a powerful asset to motif discovery. We present a unified probabilistic framework for motif discovery that incorporates of evolutionary information. We treat aligned DNA sequence as a mixture of evolutionary models, for motif and background, and, following the example of the MEME program, provide an algorithm to estimate the parameters by Expectation-Maximization. We examine a variety of evolutionary models and show that our approach can take advantage of phylogenic information to avoid false positives and discover motifs upstream of groups of characterized target genes. We compare our method to traditional motif finding on only conserved regions. An implementation will be made available http://rana.lbl.gov.
Alan M. Moses, Derek Y. Chiang, Michael B. Eisen
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Year 2004
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Authors Alan M. Moses, Derek Y. Chiang, Michael B. Eisen
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