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BMCBI
2005
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13 years 7 months ago
Genetic interaction motif finding by expectation maximization - a novel statistical model for inferring gene modules from synthe
Background: Synthetic lethality experiments identify pairs of genes with complementary function. More direct functional associations (for example greater probability of membership...
Yan Qi 0003, Ping Ye, Joel S. Bader
BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 8 months ago
An Approach to Selecting Putative RNA Motifs Using MDL Principle
The history of molecular biology is punctuated by a series of discoveries demonstrating the surprising breadth of biological roles of ribonucleic acid (RNA). An ensemble of evoluti...
Mohammad Anwar, Marcel Turcotte
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Predicting conserved protein motifs with Sub-HMMs
Background: Profile HMMs (hidden Markov models) provide effective methods for modeling the conserved regions of protein families. A limitation of the resulting domain models is th...
Kevin Horan, Christian R. Shelton, Thomas Girke
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
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 ...
GECCO
2007
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
TFBS identification by position- and consensus-led genetic algorithm with local filtering
Identification of Transcription Factor Binding Site (TFBS) motifs in multiple DNA upstream sequences is important in understanding the mechanism of gene regulation. This identific...
Tak-Ming Chan, Kwong-Sak Leung, Kin-Hong Lee