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ALMOB
2006
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A combinatorial optimization approach for diverse motif finding applications
Background: Discovering approximately repeated patterns, or motifs, in biological sequences is an important and widely-studied problem in computational molecular biology. Most fre...
Elena Zaslavsky, Mona Singh
BMCBI
2006
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CpGcluster: a distance-based algorithm for CpG-island detection
Background: Despite their involvement in the regulation of gene expression and their importance as genomic markers for promoter prediction, no objective standard exists for defini...
Michael Hackenberg, Christopher Previti, Pedro Lui...
BMCBI
2007
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A survey of DNA motif finding algorithms
Background: Unraveling the mechanisms that regulate gene expression is a major challenge in biology. An important task in this challenge is to identify regulatory elements, especi...
Modan K. Das, Ho-Kwok Dai
BMCBI
2004
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Automatic annotation of protein motif function with Gene Ontology terms
Background: Conserved protein sequence motifs are short stretches of amino acid sequence patterns that potentially encode the function of proteins. Several sequence pattern search...
Xinghua Lu, Chengxiang Zhai, Vanathi Gopalakrishna...
BMCBI
2007
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Methods for estimating human endogenous retrovirus activities from EST databases
Background: Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are surviving traces of ancient retrovirus infections and now reside within the human DNA. Recently HERV expression has been dete...
Merja Oja, Jaakko Peltonen, Jonas Blomberg, Samuel...