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BMCBI
2006
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GibbsST: a Gibbs sampling method for motif discovery with enhanced resistance to local optima
Background: Computational discovery of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) is a challenging but important problem of bioinformatics. In this study, improvement of a Gibbs sa...
Kazuhito Shida
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BMCBI
2010
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Computing DNA duplex instability profiles efficiently with a two-state model: trends of promoters and binding sites
Background: DNA instability profiles have been used recently for predicting the transcriptional start site and the location of core promoters, and to gain insight into promoter ac...
Miriam R. Kantorovitz, Zoi Rapti, Vladimir Gelev, ...
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BMCBI
2007
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15 years 16 days ago
Predicting zinc binding at the proteome level
Background: Metalloproteins are proteins capable of binding one or more metal ions, which may be required for their biological function, for regulation of their activities or for ...
Andrea Passerini, Claudia Andreini, Sauro Menchett...
BMCBI
2006
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Predicting transcription factor binding sites using local over-representation and comparative genomics
Background: Identifying cis-regulatory elements is crucial to understanding gene expression, which highlights the importance of the computational detection of overrepresented tran...
Matthieu Defrance, Hélène Touzet
BMCBI
2005
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Sequence variation in ligand binding sites in proteins
Background: The recent explosion in the availability of complete genome sequences has led to the cataloging of tens of thousands of new proteins and putative proteins. Many of the...
Thomas J. Magliery, Lynne Regan