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Exploring Sequence Space to Identify Binding Sites for Regulatory RNA-Binding Proteins
Published on: August 9, 2019
A computational approach for genome-wide mapping of splicing factor binding sites
Martin Akerman1, Hilda David-Eden, Ron Y Pinter
1Department of Biology, The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. makerman@tx.technion.ac.il
Abstract:
Alternative splicing is regulated by splicing factors that serve as positive or negative effectors, interacting with regulatory elements along exons and introns. Here we present a novel computational method for genome-wide mapping of splicing factor binding sites that considers both the genomic environment and the evolutionary conservation of the regulatory elements. The method was applied to study the regulation of different alternative splicing events, uncovering an interesting network of interactions among splicing factors.
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