Computational identification and experimental characterization of preferred downstream positions in human core promoters


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Computational identification and experimental characterization of preferred downstream positions in human core promoters

René Dreos, Anna Sloutskin, Nati Malachi, Diana Ideses, Philipp Bucher, Tamar Juven-Gershon
PLoS Comput Biol. 2021 Aug 12;17(8):e1009256. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009256. eCollection 2021 Aug.
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Clustering of promoter sequences with a probabilistic partitioning approach using R software. Scripts for generating the results are provided at https://github.com/talponer/humanDPE/. Also included are scripts for generating the Figures of the papers from the numerical results.
(In addition, the paper present confirmatory experimental results not subject to computational reprodicibility.)
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The methods are widely applicable to other DNA sequence clustering problems. Someone may obtain contradicting results with a new algorithm. In such a case, rerunning our scripts on the same or new data may help elucidate the source of the differences between the results.
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