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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2010

Predicting nucleosome positioning using a duration Hidden Markov Model.

Liqun Xi, Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf, Lei Xia, Jared Flatow, Jonathan Widom, Ji-Ping Wang

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers.

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82citing papers in PubMed
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82 citing papers in PubMed, 160 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Liqun XiDepartment of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf
Lei Xia
Jared Flatow
Jonathan Widom
Ji-Ping Wang
Northwestern University · USEvanston Hospital · US

Funding

TRANS-NETWORK PROJECTSU54CA143869 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI MARKO, JOHN F · 2009 to 2013
$12.8M
NCI NIH HHS U54CA143869PHS HHS HHSN266200400042C
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe nucleosome is the fundamental packing unit of DNAs in eukaryotic cells. Its detailed positioning on the genome is closely related to chromosome functions. Increasing evidence has shown that genomic DNA sequence itself is highly predictive of nucleosome positioning genome-wide. Therefore a fast software tool for predicting nucleosome positioning can help understanding how a genome's nucleosome organization may facilitate genome function.

resultsWe present a duration Hidden Markov model for nucleosome positioning prediction by explicitly modeling the linker DNA length. The nucleosome and linker models trained from yeast data are re-scaled when making predictions for other species to adjust for differences in base composition. A software tool named NuPoP is developed in three formats for free download.

conclusionsSimulation studies show that modeling the linker length distribution and utilizing a base composition re-scaling method both improve the prediction of nucleosome positioning regarding sensitivity and false discovery rate. NuPoP provides a user-friendly software tool for predicting the nucleosome occupancy and the most probable nucleosome positioning map for genomic sequences of any size. When compared with two existing methods, NuPoP shows improved performance in sensitivity.

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Markov ChainsDNAGenomeGenomicsNucleosomesPattern Recognition, AutomatedSoftwareDNANucleosomes

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PMID20576140
PMCPMC2900280
OpenAlexW2018475069

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