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A new statistical model to select target sequences bound by transcription factors

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Pape,  Utz J.
Dept. of Computational Molecular Biology (Head: Martin Vingron), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Society;

Grossmann,  Steffen
Max Planck Society;

Hammer,  Stefanie
Max Planck Society;

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Sperling,  Silke
Dept. of Vertebrate Genomics (Head: Hans Lehrach), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Society;

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Vingron,  Martin
Gene regulation (Martin Vingron), Dept. of Computational Molecular Biology (Head: Martin Vingron), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Society;

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Pape, U. J., Grossmann, S., Hammer, S., Sperling, S., & Vingron, M. (2006). A new statistical model to select target sequences bound by transcription factors. Genome Informatics, 17(1), 134-140.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0010-8513-C
Abstract
Transcription factors (TFs) play a key role in gene regulation by binding to target sequences. In silico prediction of potential binding to a sequence is a main task in computational biology. Although many methods have been proposed to tackle this problem, the statistical significance of the prediction is still not solved. We propose an approach to give a good approximation for the potential of a sequence to be bound by a TF. Instead of assessing distinct binding sites, we motivate to focus on the number of binding sites. Based on a suitable statistical model, probabilities for scoring are approximated for a TF to bind to a sequence. Two examples show the necessity of such a model as well as the superiority of the proposed method compared to standard approaches.