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Motif Enrichment Analysis: a unified framework and an evaluation on ChIP data
Background: A major goal of molecular biology is determining the mechanisms that control the transcription of genes. Motif Enrichment Analysis (MEA) seeks to determine which DNA-b...
Robert C. McLeay, Timothy L. Bailey
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2010
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Haplotype allelic classes for detecting ongoing positive selection
Background: Natural selection eliminates detrimental and favors advantageous phenotypes. This process leaves characteristic signatures in underlying genomic segments that can be r...
Julie Hussin, Philippe Nadeau, Jean-Françoi...
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An efficient biological pathway layout algorithm combining grid-layout and spring embedder for complicated cellular location inf
Background: Graph drawing is one of the important techniques for understanding biological regulations in a cell or among cells at the pathway level. Among many available layout al...
Kaname Kojima, Masao Nagasaki, Satoru Miyano
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Improving pairwise sequence alignment accuracy using near-optimal protein sequence alignments
Background: While the pairwise alignments produced by sequence similarity searches are a powerful tool for identifying homologous proteins - proteins that share a common ancestor ...
Michael L. Sierk, Michael E. Smoot, Ellen J. Bass,...
BMCBI
2010
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Bias correction and Bayesian analysis of aggregate counts in SAGE libraries
Background: Tag-based techniques, such as SAGE, are commonly used to sample the mRNA pool of an organism's transcriptome. Incomplete digestion during the tag formation proces...
Russell L. Zaretzki, Michael A. Gilchrist, William...