[HTML][HTML] Using RSAT to scan genome sequences for transcription factor binding sites and cis-regulatory modules

JV Turatsinze, M Thomas-Chollier, M Defrance… - Nature protocols, 2008 - nature.com
This protocol shows how to detect putative cis-regulatory elements and regions enriched in
such elements with the regulatory sequence analysis tools (RSAT) web server (http://rsat …

[HTML][HTML] DNA motifs that sculpt the bacterial chromosome

F Touzain, MA Petit, S Schbath… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
During the bacterial cell cycle, the processes of chromosome replication, DNA segregation,
DNA repair and cell division are coordinated by precisely defined events. Tremendous …

[HTML][HTML] Computational studies of membrane proteins: models and predictions for biological understanding

J Liang, H Naveed, D Jimenez-Morales… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2012 - Elsevier
We discuss recent progresses in computational studies of membrane proteins based on
physical models with parameters derived from bioinformatics analysis. We describe …

Fast alignment-free sequence comparison using spaced-word frequencies

CA Leimeister, M Boden, S Horwege, S Lindner… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Alignment-free methods for sequence comparison are increasingly used for
genome analysis and phylogeny reconstruction; they circumvent various difficulties of …

Level statistics of words: Finding keywords in literary texts and symbolic sequences

P Carpena, P Bernaola-Galván, M Hackenberg… - Physical Review E …, 2009 - APS
Using a generalization of the level statistics analysis of quantum disordered systems, we
present an approach able to extract automatically keywords in literary texts. Our approach …

Spaced words and kmacs: fast alignment-free sequence comparison based on inexact word matches

S Horwege, S Lindner, M Boden, K Hatje… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In this article, we present a user-friendly web interface for two alignment-free sequence-
comparison methods that we recently developed. Most alignment-free methods rely on exact …

Estimating evolutionary distances between genomic sequences from spaced-word matches

B Morgenstern, B Zhu, S Horwege… - Algorithms for Molecular …, 2015 - Springer
Alignment-free methods are increasingly used to calculate evolutionary distances between
DNA and protein sequences as a basis of phylogeny reconstruction. Most of these methods …

Efficient exact motif discovery

T Marschall, S Rahmann - Bioinformatics, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: The motif discovery problem consists of finding over-represented patterns in a
collection of biosequences. It is one of the classical sequence analysis problems, but still …

Identification of DNA motifs implicated in maintenance of bacterial core genomes by predictive modeling

D Halpern, H Chiapello, S Schbath, S Robin… - PLoS …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Bacterial biodiversity at the species level, in terms of gene acquisition or loss, is so immense
that it raises the question of how essential chromosomal regions are spared from …

Using RSAT oligo-analysis and dyad-analysis tools to discover regulatory signals in nucleic sequences

M Defrance, R Janky, O Sand, J Van Helden - Nature protocols, 2008 - nature.com
This protocol explains how to discover functional signals in genomic sequences by detecting
over-or under-represented oligonucleotides (words) or spaced pairs thereof (dyads) with the …