The main goal of the motif finding problem is to detect novel, over-represented unknown signals in a set of sequences (e.g. transcription factor binding sites in a genome). The mo...
Chandan K. Reddy, Yao-Chung Weng, Hsiao-Dong Chian...
Background: Expression microarray analysis is one of the most popular molecular diagnostic techniques in the post-genomic era. However, this technique faces the fundamental proble...
Yian A. Chen, Cheng-Chung Chou, Xinghua Lu, Elizab...
Background: Availability of high-resolution RNA crystal structures for the 30S and 50S ribosomal subunits and the subsequent validation of comparative secondary structure models h...
Yadhu Kumar, Ralf Westram, Peter Kipfer, Harald Me...
Background: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is an established method for parameter optimization. It represents a population-based adaptive optimization technique that is influen...
Michael Meissner, Michael Schmuker, Gisbert Schnei...
Background: Modeling of cis-elements or regulatory motifs in promoter (upstream) regions of genes is a challenging computational problem. In this work, set of regulatory motifs si...
Amrita Pati, Cecilia Vasquez-Robinet, Lenwood S. H...