G Pesole1, S Liuni, M D'Souza. 1. Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Università di Milano, Via Celoria, 26, 20133 Milano, Italy. graziano.pesole@unimi.it
Abstract
MOTIVATION: The identification of sequence patterns involved in gene regulation and expression is a major challenge in molecular biology. In this paper we describe a novel algorithm and the software for searching nucleotide and protein sequences for complex nucleotide patterns including potential secondary structure elements, also allowing for mismatches/mispairings below a user-fixed threshold, and assessing the statistical significance of their occurrence through a Markov chain simulation. RESULTS: The application of the proposed algorithm allowed the identification of some functional elements, such as the Iron Responsive Element, the Histone stem-loop structure and the Selenocysteine Insertion Sequence, located in the mRNA untranslated regions of post-transcriptionally regulated genes with the assessment of sensitivity and selectivity of the searching method. AVAILABILITY: A Web interface is available at: http://bigarea.area.ba.cnr.it:8000/EmbIT/Pats earch.html.
MOTIVATION: The identification of sequence patterns involved in gene regulation and expression is a major challenge in molecular biology. In this paper we describe a novel algorithm and the software for searching nucleotide and protein sequences for complex nucleotide patterns including potential secondary structure elements, also allowing for mismatches/mispairings below a user-fixed threshold, and assessing the statistical significance of their occurrence through a Markov chain simulation. RESULTS: The application of the proposed algorithm allowed the identification of some functional elements, such as the Iron Responsive Element, the Histone stem-loop structure and the Selenocysteine Insertion Sequence, located in the mRNA untranslated regions of post-transcriptionally regulated genes with the assessment of sensitivity and selectivity of the searching method. AVAILABILITY: A Web interface is available at: http://bigarea.area.ba.cnr.it:8000/EmbIT/Pats earch.html.
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