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. 2006 Apr;2(4):e36.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020036.

Practical strategies for discovering regulatory DNA sequence motifs

Kenzie D MacIsaac  1 , Ernest Fraenkel
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Practical strategies for discovering regulatory DNA sequence motifs

Kenzie D MacIsaac et al. PLoS Comput Biol. 2006 Apr.
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Competing interests. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1. Motif Discovery Workflow
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Figure 2. Scanning for Motifs with PWMs
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Figure 3. Resources
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