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BMCBI
2006
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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
2005
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A multistep bioinformatic approach detects putative regulatory elements in gene promoters
Background: Searching for approximate patterns in large promoter sequences frequently produces an exceedingly high numbers of results. Our aim was to exploit biological knowledge ...
Stefania Bortoluzzi, Alessandro Coppe, Andrea Biso...
BMCBI
2005
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Computing expectation values for RNA motifs using discrete convolutions
Background: Computational biologists use Expectation values (E-values) to estimate the number of solutions that can be expected by chance during a database scan. Here we focus on ...
André Lambert, Matthieu Legendre, Jean-Fred...
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BMCBI
2008
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A new protein linear motif benchmark for multiple sequence alignment software
Background: Linear motifs (LMs) are abundant short regulatory sites used for modulating the functions of many eukaryotic proteins. They play important roles in post-translational ...
Emmanuel Perrodou, Claudia Chica, Olivier Poch, To...
BMCBI
2006
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Optimized mixed Markov models for motif identification
Background: Identifying functional elements, such as transcriptional factor binding sites, is a fundamental step in reconstructing gene regulatory networks and remains a challengi...
Weichun Huang, David M. Umbach, Uwe Ohler, Leping ...