Pseudocounts for transcription factor binding sites
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Pseudocounts for transcription factor binding sites
To represent the sequence specificity of transcription factors, the position weight matrix (PWM) is widely used. In most cases, each element is defined as a log likelihood ratio of a base appearing at a certain position, which is estimated from a finite number of known binding sites. To avoid bias due to this small sample size, a certain numeric value, called a pseudocount, is usually allocated...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1362-4962,0305-1048
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn1019