An improved heuristic algorithm for finding motif signals in DNA sequences

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 959-975

  Huang, Chao Wen ^a   Lee, Wun Shiun ^a   Hsieh, Sun Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

(l; d) signals.; heuristic algorithms; Planted motif search problem

Indexed keywords

(L; BIOLOGICAL DATA; D)-SIGNALS.; FUNCTIONAL SITES; MATHEMATICAL ABSTRACTION; MOTIF FINDING; MOTIF SEARCH; PLANTED MOTIF SEARCH PROBLEM; SIMULATED DATASETS;

DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; PORTALS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

DNA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SWINE; TETRAODONTIFORMES;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATTLE; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; TETRAODONTIFORMES;

EID: 79957634274     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2010.92     Document Type: Article

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