Detection of prokaryotic promoters from the genomic distribution of hexanucleotide pairs

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In bacteria, sigma factors and other transcriptional regulatory proteins recognize DNA patterns upstream of their target genes and interact with RNA polymerase to control transcription. As a consequence of evolution, DNA sequences re...

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Main Authors: Gaudreau Luc, Rodrigue Sébastien, Jacques Pierre-Étienne, Goulet Jean, Brzezinski Ryszard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-10-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/7/423