The motif sampler is a method to find cis-acting
regulatory elements from a set of co-regulated DNA sequences (e.g. promoters).
The basic assumption is that a cluster of co-regulated genes is regulated
by the same transcription factors and the genes of a given cluster share
common regulatory motifs.
For instance, large-scale transcriptome expression analysis such as microarrays produce large sets of co-regulated genes. There are several methods available to search for over-represented motif in the upstream region of a set of co-regulated genes. Our approach is based on probabilistic sequence models (e.g. Gibbs Sampling). |
Before using the Motif sampler, make sure you follow all the recommandations.
References:
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