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ReviewNucleic acids research2006

Computational identification of transcriptional regulatory elements in DNA sequence.

Debraj GuhaThakurta

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Review in Nucleic acids research, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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60citing papers in PubMed
8.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Improving MEME via a two-tiered significance analysis.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2014
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  20. Evidence classification of high-throughput protocols and confidence integration in RegulonDB.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Debraj GuhaThakurtaResearch Genetics Division, Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC, Merck & Co., Inc, 401 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. debraj_guhathakurta@merck.com
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identification and annotation of all the functional elements in the genome, including genes and the regulatory sequences, is a fundamental challenge in genomics and computational biology. Since regulatory elements are frequently short and variable, their identification and discovery using computational algorithms is difficult. However, significant advances have been made in the computational methods for modeling and detection of DNA regulatory elements. The availability of complete genome sequence from multiple organisms, as well as mRNA profiling and high-throughput experimental methods for mapping protein-binding sites in DNA, have contributed to the development of methods that utilize these auxiliary data to inform the detection of transcriptional regulatory elements. Progress is also being made in the identification of cis-regulatory modules and higher order structures of the regulatory sequences, which is essential to the understanding of transcription regulation in the metazoan genomes. This article reviews the computational approaches for modeling and identification of genomic regulatory elements, with an emphasis on the recent developments, and current challenges.

Indexed as

Regulatory Elements, TranscriptionalAnimalsComputational BiologyGenomicsHumansMiceSequence Analysis, DNA

Identifiers

PMID16855295
PMCPMC1524905
OpenAlexW2154412571

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