Evaluation of methods for modeling transcription factor sequence specificity

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 126-134

  Weirauch, Matthew T ^a,b   Cote, Atina ^a   Norel, Raquel ^c   Annala, Matti ^d   Zhao, Yue ^e   Riley, Todd R ^f   Saez Rodriguez, Julio ^g   Cokelaer, Thomas ^g   Vedenko, Anastasia ^h   Talukder, Shaheynoor ^a   Bussemaker, Harmen J ^f   Quaid, Morris D ^a   Bulyk, Martha L ^h,i   Stolovitzky, Gustavo ^c   Hughes, Timothy R ^a   Agius, Phaedra ^i,j   Arvey, Aaron ^j   Bucher, Philipp ^k,l   Callan, Curtis G ^m   Chang, Cheng Wei ⁿ   Chen, Chien Yu ^o   Chen, Yong Syuan ^o   Chu, Yu Wei ^o   Grau, Jan ^p,q   Grosse, Ivo ^p,q   Jagannathan, Vidhya ^k,aa   Keilwagen, Jens ^r   Kiebasa, Szymon M ^s   Kinney, Justin B ^t   Klein, Holger ^u   Kursa, Miron B ^v   Lähdesmäki, Harri ^w,x   Laurila, Kirsti ^d   Lei, Chengwei ^y   Leslie, Christina ^j   Linhart, Chaim ^z   Murugan, Anand ^m   Myšičková, Alena ^s   Noble, William Stafford ^aa   Nykter, Matti ^d   Orenstein, Yaron ^z   Posch, Stefan ^p   Ruan, Jianhua ^y   Rudnicki, Witold R ^v   Schmid, Christoph D ^k,ab,ac   Shamir, Ron ^z   Sung, Wing Kin ^n,ad   Vingron, Martin ^s   Zhang, Zhizhuo ^ad   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^g EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^h HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^k SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^l EPFL   (Switzerland)

^m PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^o NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^p MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^r LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^s MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^t Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^u MICRODISCOVERY GMBH   (Germany)

^v UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^w AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^x TURKU CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^y University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

^z TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^ab SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^ad NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; TRANSCRIPTION;

DNA-BINDING PROTEIN; DNA-BINDING SPECIFICITY; EVALUATION OF METHODS; GENOMICS ANALYSIS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; LEARN+; PROTEIN-DNA BINDING; SEQUENCE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITES;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 84873594686     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2486     Document Type: Article

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