An improved position weight matrix method based on an entropy measure for the recognition of prokaryotic promoters

International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-37

  Wu, Qinqin ^a,b   Wang, Jiajun ^a   Yan, Hong ^b,c  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservative sites; Information entropy; Position weight matrix; Prokaryotic promoter recognition; PWM

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951613222     PISSN: 17485673     EISSN: 17485681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJDMB.2011.038575     Document Type: Article

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