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Using SCOPE to Identify Potential Regulatory Motifs in Coregulated Genes
Published on: May 31, 2011
PEAKS: identification of regulatory motifs by their position in DNA sequences
Nicolás Bellora1, Domènec Farré, M Mar Albà
1Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 08003, Spain.
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Many DNA functional motifs tend to accumulate or cluster at specific gene locations. These locations can be detected, in a group of gene sequences, as high frequency 'peaks' with respect to a reference position, such as the transcription start site (TSS). We have developed a web tool for the identification of regions containing significant motif peaks. We show, by using different yeast gene datasets, that peak regions are strongly enriched in experimentally-validated motifs and contain potentially important novel motifs.
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http://genomics.imim.es/peaks
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