On 2006-10-24, mark <mkazmierski from gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a new in bioinformatics field. Presently I am looking at good
> description (algorithms / open software) about finding motifs for
> DNA/RNA strings. I.e. my task is just to explore the problem of finding
> the longest motifs (with possible mutation) in the specified number of
> strings. Would be grateful for any information about that problems
> (tutorials / books / source codes / descriptions / etc.).
For a real brief intro, look at the Wikipedia article "Sequence
motif", which points to MEME and mentions other methods.
That should at lesat get you keywords for searching article databases.
There was a review article
Wyeth W. Wasserman, William Krivan
In silico identification of metazoan transcriptional regulatory regions
Naturwissenschaften Volume 90, Number 4 / April, 2003 156-166
but I've not read it and don't know if it is the best review.
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