Gert Thijs
ABSTRACT
Microarray experiments can reveal useful information on the transcriptional regulation. We try to find regulatory elements in the region upstream of translation start of coexpressed genes. Here we present a modification to the original Gibbs Sampling algorithm [12]. We introduce a probability distribution to estimate the number of copies of the motif in a sequence. The second modification is the incorporation of a higher-order background model. We have successfully tested our algorithm on several data sets. First we show results on two selected data set: sequences from plants containing the G-box motif and the upstream sequences from bacterial genes regulated by O2-responsive protein FNR. In both cases the motif sampler is able to find the expected motifs. Finally, the sampler is tested on 4 clusters of coexpressed genes from a wounding experiment in Arabidopsis thaliana. We find several putative motifs that are related to the pathways involved in the plant defense mechanism.
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