AMD, an automated motif discovery tool using stepwise refinement of gapped consensuses.

Motif discovery is essential for deciphering regulatory codes from high throughput genomic data, such as those from ChIP-chip/seq experiments. However, there remains a lack of effective and efficient methods for the identification of long and gapped motifs in many relevant tools reported to date. We...

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Main Authors: Jiantao Shi, Wentao Yang, Mingjie Chen, Yanzhi Du, Ji Zhang, Kankan Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3171486?pdf=render