Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on June 5, 2007
Bioinformatics 2007 23(19):2619-2621; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm288
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dPattern: transcription factor binding site (TFBS) discovery in human genome using a discriminative pattern analysis
1Department of Computer Science, 2School of Informatics, 3Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University – Bloomington, IN 47404 and 4Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Motivation: Transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) are typically short in length, thus search with a profile model from known TFBSs produces many false positives. When combined with additional information, gene expression data in this article, sensitivity and specificity of TFBS search can be improved significantly.
Results: By modifying our previous REFINEMENT approach, we developed dPattern that searches for occurrences of TFBSs in the promotor regions of up/down regulated or random genes.
Availability: http://platcom.org/projects/dpattern
Contact: sun.kim{at}acm.org or sunkim2{at}indiana.edu
Associate Editor: Burkhand Rost
Received on January 9, 2007; revised on May 20, 2007; accepted on May 21, 2007