Discovery and information-theoretic characterization of transcription factor binding sites that act cooperatively

Physical Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Clifford, Jacob ^a   Adami, Christoph ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

DNA binding sites; Dorsal Ventral network; information theory; position weight matrices

Indexed keywords

DNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; MODELS, GENETIC; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN BINDING; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84945242602     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/12/5/056004     Document Type: Article

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