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WABI
2001
Springer
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A Simple Hyper-Geometric Approach for Discovering Putative Transcription Factor Binding Sites
A central issue in molecular biology is understanding the regulatory mechanisms that control gene expression. The recent flood of genomic and postgenomic data opens the way for co...
Yoseph Barash, Gill Bejerano, Nir Friedman
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
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
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
ETE: a python Environment for Tree Exploration
Background: Many bioinformatics analyses, ranging from gene clustering to phylogenetics, produce hierarchical trees as their main result. These are used to represent the relations...
Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Joaquín Dopazo, Toni Ga...
BMCBI
2006
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Incorporating background frequency improves entropy-based residue conservation measures
Background: Several entropy-based methods have been developed for scoring sequence conservation in protein multiple sequence alignments. High scoring amino acid positions may corr...
Kai Wang, Ram Samudrala
BMCBI
2008
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IgTM: An algorithm to predict transmembrane domains and topology in proteins
Background: Due to their role of receptors or transporters, membrane proteins play a key role in many important biological functions. In our work we used Grammatical Inference (GI...
Piedachu Peris, Damián López, Marcel...