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Position weight matrix

Known as: Position-specific scoring matrix, Position-specific weight matrix, Scoring matrix 
A position weight matrix (PWM), also known as a position-specific weight matrix (PSWM) or position-specific scoring matrix (PSSM), is a commonly used… (More)
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2013
2013
Mutual enrichment in ranked lists and the statistical assessment of position weight matrix motifs
Statistics in ranked lists is useful in analysing molecular biology measurement data, such as differential expression, resulting… (More)
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2011
2011
On Position-Specific Scoring Matrix for Protein Function Prediction
While genome sequencing projects have generated tremendous amounts of protein sequence data for a vast number of genomes… (More)
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2009
2009
MOODS: fast search for position weight matrix matches in DNA sequences
UNLABELLED MOODS (MOtif Occurrence Detection Suite) is a software package for matching position weight matrices against DNA… (More)
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2009
2009
An Improved Position Weight Matrix Method Based on an Entropy Measure for the Recognition of Prokaryotic Promoters
In this paper, an Improved Position Weight Matrix (IPWM) method is proposed based on an entropy measure for the recognition of… (More)
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2007
2007
GAPWM: a genetic algorithm method for optimizing a position weight matrix
MOTIVATION Position weight matrices (PMWs) are simple models commonly used in motif-finding algorithms to identify short… (More)
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2006
2006
On counting position weight matrix matches in a sequence, with application to discriminative motif finding
MOTIVATION AND RESULTS The position weight matrix (PWM) is a popular method to model transcription factor binding sites. A… (More)
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2004
Highly Cited
2004
PrediSi: prediction of signal peptides and their cleavage positions
We have developed PrediSi (Prediction of Signal peptides), a new tool for predicting signal peptide sequences and their cleavage… (More)
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2004
2004
Wurst: a protein threading server with a structural scoring function, sequence profiles and optimized substitution matrices
Wurst is a protein threading program with an emphasis on high quality sequence to structure alignments (http://www.zbh.uni… (More)
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2002
2002
A new distance measure for comparing sequence profiles based on path lengths along an entropy surface
We describe a new distance measure for comparing DNA sequence profiles. For this measure, columns in a multiple alignment are… (More)
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1996
Highly Cited
1996
The statistical significance of nucleotide position-weight matrix matches
MOTIVATION To improve the detection of nucleotide sequence signals (e.g. promoter elements) by position-weight matrices (PWM… (More)
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