Absence of a simple code: how transcription factors read the genome

M Slattery, T Zhou, L Yang, ACD Machado… - Trends in biochemical …, 2014 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) influence cell fate by interpreting the regulatory DNA within a
genome. TFs recognize DNA in a specific manner; the mechanisms underlying this …

Transcriptional control of human p53-regulated genes

T Riley, E Sontag, P Chen, A Levine - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2008 - nature.com
The p53 protein regulates the transcription of many different genes in response to a wide
variety of stress signals. Following DNA damage, p53 regulates key processes, including …

JASPAR: an open‐access database for eukaryotic transcription factor binding profiles

A Sandelin, W Alkema, P Engström… - Nucleic acids …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The analysis of regulatory regions in genome sequences is strongly based on the detection
of potential transcription factor binding sites. The preferred models for representation of …

Discovering motifs in ranked lists of DNA sequences

E Eden, D Lipson, S Yogev… - PLoS computational …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Computational methods for discovery of sequence elements that are enriched in a target set
compared with a background set are fundamental in molecular biology research. One …

Zelda Binding in the Early Drosophila melanogaster Embryo Marks Regions Subsequently Activated at the Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition

MM Harrison, XY Li, T Kaplan, MR Botchan… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The earliest stages of development in most metazoans are driven by maternally deposited
proteins and mRNAs, with widespread transcriptional activation of the zygotic genome …

Analysis of genomic sequence motifs for deciphering transcription factor binding and transcriptional regulation in eukaryotic cells

V Boeva - Frontiers in genetics, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Eukaryotic genomes contain a variety of structured patterns: repetitive elements, binding
sites of DNA and RNA associated proteins, splice sites, and so on. Often, these structured …

The next generation of transcription factor binding site prediction

A Mathelier, WW Wasserman - PLoS computational biology, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Finding where transcription factors (TFs) bind to the DNA is of key importance to decipher
gene regulation at a transcriptional level. Classically, computational prediction of TF binding …

Nonparametric Bayes modeling of multivariate categorical data

DB Dunson, C Xing - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Modeling of multivariate unordered categorical (nominal) data is a challenging problem,
particularly in high dimensions and cases in which one wishes to avoid strong assumptions …

Quantitative analysis demonstrates most transcription factors require only simple models of specificity

Y Zhao, GD Stormo - Nature biotechnology, 2011 - nature.com
To the Editor: In his News Feature published in the February issue, Michael Eisenstein
outlines several alternative methods of drug delivery1 and discusses how several targets in …

Quantitative Models of the Mechanisms That Control Genome-Wide Patterns of Transcription Factor Binding during Early Drosophila Development

T Kaplan, XY Li, PJ Sabo, S Thomas… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Transcription factors that drive complex patterns of gene expression during animal
development bind to thousands of genomic regions, with quantitative differences in binding …