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- Title
Informative priors based on transcription factor structural class improve de novo motif discovery.
- Authors
Narlikar, Leelavati; Gordân, Raluca; Ohler, Uwe; Hartemink, Alexander J
- Abstract
An important problem in molecular biology is to identify the locations at which a transcription factor (TF) binds to DNA, given a set of DNA sequences believed to be bound by that TF. In previous work, we showed that information in the DNA sequence of a binding site is sufficient to predict the structural class of the TF that binds it. In particular, this suggests that we can predict which locations in any DNA sequence are more likely to be bound by certain classes of TFs than others. Here, we argue that traditional methods for de novo motif finding can be significantly improved by adopting an informative prior probability that a TF binding site occurs at each sequence location. To demonstrate the utility of such an approach, we present priority, a powerful new de novo motif finding algorithm.
- Publication
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2006, Vol 22, Issue 14, pe384
- ISSN
1367-4811
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btl251