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ArticleNucleic acids research2011

STEME: efficient EM to find motifs in large data sets.

John E Reid, Lorenz Wernisch

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. MicrosatNavigator: exploring nonrandom distribution and lineage-specificity of microsatellite repeat motifs on vertebrate sex chromosomes across 186 whole genomes.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2023
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  4. STREME: accurate and versatile sequence motif discovery.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2021
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  9. GSMC: Combining Parallel Gibbs Sampling with Maximal Cliques for Hunting DNA Motif.Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology · 2017
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  18. EXTREME: an online EM algorithm for motif discovery.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2014
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2 authors.

John E ReidMRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK. john.reid@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Lorenz Wernisch

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U105260799
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MEME and many other popular motif finders use the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm to optimize their parameters. Unfortunately, the running time of EM is linear in the length of the input sequences. This can prohibit its application to data sets of the size commonly generated by high-throughput biological techniques. A suffix tree is a data structure that can efficiently index a set of sequences. We describe an algorithm, Suffix Tree EM for Motif Elicitation (STEME), that approximates EM using suffix trees. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of suffix trees to EM. We provide an analysis of the expected running time of the algorithm and demonstrate that STEME runs an order of magnitude more quickly than the implementation of EM used by MEME. We give theoretical bounds for the quality of the approximation and show that, in practice, the approximation has a negligible effect on the outcome. We provide an open source implementation of the algorithm that we hope will be used to speed up existing and future motif search algorithms.

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AlgorithmsNucleotide MotifsSequence Analysis, DNABinding SitesReproducibility of ResultsTranscription FactorsTranscription Factors

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PMID21785132
PMCPMC3185442

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