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Improving MEME via a two-tiered significance analysis
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Abstract
- Motivation : With over 9000 unique users recorded in the first half of 2013, MEME is one of the most popular motif-finding tools available. Reliable estimates of the statistical significance of motifs can greatly increase the usefulness of any motif finder. By analogy, it is difficult to imagine evaluating a BLAST result without its accompanying E -value. Currently MEME evaluates its EM-generated candidate motifs using an extension of BLAST’s E -value to the motif-finding context. Although we previously indicated the drawbacks of MEME’s current significance evaluation, we did not offer a practical substitute suited for its needs, especially because MEME also relies on the E -value internally to rank competing candidate motifs. Results : Here we offer a two-tiered significance analysis that can replace the E -value in selecting the best candidate motif and in evaluating its overall statistical significance. We show that our new approach could substantially improve MEME’s motif-finding performance and would also provide the user with a reliable significance analysis. In addition, for large input sets, our new approach is in fact faster than the currently implemented E -value analysis. Contact : uri.keich@sydney.edu.au or emi.tanaka@sydney.edu.au Supplementary information : Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
- Subjects :
- Statistics and Probability
Computer science
business.industry
Analogy
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Machine learning
computer.software_genre
Biochemistry
Original Papers
Computer Science Applications
Computational Mathematics
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Motif (music)
Artificial intelligence
Data mining
Nucleotide Motifs
business
Molecular Biology
computer
Algorithms
Software
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5203ec1142dcab059c6bf1e0884cad2a