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IJBRA
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
Finding functional promoter motifs by computational methods: a word of caution
: The standard practice in the analysis of promoters is to select promoter regions of convenient length. This may lead to false results when searching for Transcription Factor Bind...
Rajesh Chowdhary, Limsoon Wong, Vladimir B. Bajic
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
SIGffRid: A tool to search for sigma factor binding sites in bacterial genomes using comparative approach and biologically drive
Background: Many programs have been developed to identify transcription factor binding sites. However, most of them are not able to infer two-word motifs with variable spacer leng...
Fabrice Touzain, Sophie Schbath, Isabelle Debled-R...
GCB
2004
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Feature Based Representation and Detection of Transcription Factor Binding Sites
: The prediction of transcription factor binding sites is an important problem, since it reveals information about the transcriptional regulation of genes. A commonly used represen...
Rainer Pudimat, Ernst Günter Schukat-Talamazz...
RECOMB
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Nucleosome Occupancy Information Improves de novo Motif Discovery
A complete understanding of transcriptional regulatory processes in the cell requires identification of transcription factor binding sites on a genomewide scale. Unfortunately, th...
Leelavati Narlikar, Raluca Gordân, Alexander...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling regulatory sites with higher order position-dependent weight matrices
Identification of regulatory signals in DNA depends on the nature and quality of the patterns of representative sequences. These patterns are constructed from training sets of se...
Hossein Zare, Mostafa Kaveh, Arkady B. Khodursky
RECOMB
2003
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Phylogenetically and spatially conserved word pairs associated with gene expression changes in yeasts
Background: Transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes often involves multiple transcription factors binding to the same transcription control region, and to understand the regulato...
Derek Y. Chiang, Alan M. Moses, Manolis Kamvysseli...