DNA motif elucidation using belief propagation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Wong, Ka Chun ^a,b   Chan, Tak Ming ^c   Peng, Chengbin ^d   Li, Yue ^a,b   Zhang, Zhaolei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BELIEF PROPAGATION; DNA BINDING MOTIF; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BINDING MICROARRAY; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN MICROARRAY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MARKOV CHAINS; MICE; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84887011782     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt574     Document Type: Article

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