A new approach to the assessment of the quality of predictions of transcription factor binding sites

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-149

  Nowakowski, Szymon ^a   Tiuryn, Jerzy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Mixture of PSSMs; Model assessment; Modeling dependencies; Motif finding; Predicting binding sites; Statistical significance

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BINDING SITES PREDICTION; MODEL ASSESSMENT; MODELING DEPENDENCIES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BINDING SITES;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CALCULATION; EVALUATION; MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; SECONDARY VERIFICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33847675311     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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