CGC Bibliography Paper 4971

Fast approximate motif statistics.

Nicodeme P

Medline:

21426997

Citation:

Journal of Computational Biology 8: 235-248 2001

Type:

ARTICLE

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Abstract:

We present in this article a fast approximate method for computing the statistics of a number of non-self-overlapping matches of motifs in a random text in the nonuniform Bernoulli model. This method is well suited for protein motifs where the probability of self-overlap of motifs is small. For 96% of the PROSITE motifs, the expectations of occurrences of the motifs in a 7-million-amino-acids random database are computed by the approximate method with less than 1% error when compared with the exact method. Processing of the whole PROSITE takes about 30 seconds with the approximate method. We apply this new method to a comparison of the C. elegans and