Identifying short motifs by means of extreme value analysis

Details Identifying short motifs by means of extreme value analysis Identifying short motifs by means of extreme value analysis

2008-03-29

arxiv.org/abs/0803.4277v2

Europhysics Letters 84 18001 (2008)

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Genomics

6 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/84/18001

The problem of detecting a binding site -- a substring of DNA where transcription factors attach -- on a long DNA sequence requires the recognition of a small pattern in a large background. For short binding sites, the matching probability can display large fluctuations from one putative binding site to another. Here we use a self-consistent statistical procedure that accounts correctly for the large deviations of the matching probability to predict the location of short binding sites. We apply it in two distinct situations: (a) the detection of the binding sites for three specific transcription factors on a set of 134 estrogen-regulated genes; (b) the identification, in a set of 138 possible transcription factors, of the ones binding a specific set of nine genes. In both instances, experimental findings are reproduced (when available) and the number of false positives is significantly reduced with respect to the other methods commonly employed.

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