Discovering sequence motifs.

@article{citeulike:2915522, abstract = {Sequence motif discovery algorithms are an important part of the computational biologist's toolkit. The purpose of motif discovery is to discover patterns in biopolymer (nucleotide or protein) sequences in order to better understand the structure and function of the molecules the sequences represent. This chapter provides an overview of the use of sequence motif discovery in biology and a general guide to the use of motif discovery algorithms. The chapter discusses the types of biological features that DNA and protein motifs can represent and their usefulness. It also defines what sequence motifs are, how they are represented, and general techniques for discovering them. The primary focus is on one aspect of motif discovery: discovering motifs in a set of unaligned DNA or protein sequences. Also presented are steps useful for checking the biological validity and investigating the function of sequence motifs using methods such as motif scanning--searching for matches to motifs in a given sequence or a database of sequences. A discussion of some limitations of motif discovery concludes the chapter.}, address = {ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, and Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.}, author = {Bailey, T. L. }, citeulike-article-id = {2915522}, doi = {10.1007/978-1-60327-159-2\_12}, issn = {1064-3745}, journal = {Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)}, keywords = {motif, review}, pages = {231--251}, posted-at = {2008-06-22 21:36:09}, priority = {2}, title = {Discovering sequence motifs.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-159-2\_12}, volume = {452}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2915522 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2915522 TI - Discovering sequence motifs. JF - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) VL - 452 SP - 231 EP - 251 AD - ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, and Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. SN - 1064-3745 N2 - Sequence motif discovery algorithms are an important part of the computational biologist's toolkit. The purpose of motif discovery is to discover patterns in biopolymer (nucleotide or protein) sequences in order to better understand the structure and function of the molecules the sequences represent. This chapter provides an overview of the use of sequence motif discovery in biology and a general guide to the use of motif discovery algorithms. The chapter discusses the types of biological features that DNA and protein motifs can represent and their usefulness. It also defines what sequence motifs are, how they are represented, and general techniques for discovering them. The primary focus is on one aspect of motif discovery: discovering motifs in a set of unaligned DNA or protein sequences. Also presented are steps useful for checking the biological validity and investigating the function of sequence motifs using methods such as motif scanning--searching for matches to motifs in a given sequence or a database of sequences. A discussion of some limitations of motif discovery concludes the chapter. KW - motif KW - review AU - Bailey, TL PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-159-2_12 ER -