Pseudocounts for transcription factor binding sites

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 939-944

  Nishida, Keishin ^a   Frith, Martin C ^b   Nakai, Kenta ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ENTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

BINDING SITES; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 63349083142     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn1019     Document Type: Article

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