Identification of Transcriptional Regulatory Elements by Functional Enrichment Analysis.
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@MISC{Karmaker_identificationof,
author = {Amitava Karmaker and Stephen Kwek},
title = {Identification of Transcriptional Regulatory Elements by Functional Enrichment Analysis.},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Abstract- Deciphering the complex interaction between transcriptional regulatory (both trans- and cis-) elements comprehensively and identifying these potential binding sites are fundamental problems in functional genomics. Therefore, determining the transcription factors that regulate a gene in different cell types and the cis-regulatory elements they are binding to will help lay the foundation for building gene regulatory networks. While many computational approaches have been developed for lower eukaryotes and prokaryotes, most of them often do not generalize to vertebrates. Here, we use gene ontological evidences to perform functional enrichment analysis among the TFs and genes, and group the functionally related genes to characterize their transcriptional association. We also analyze correlations between TFs and genes using their expression profiles. Thus, we search for putative transcriptional regulatory elements (transcription factor binding sites) along core promoter regions of the grouped genes. The performance of our search is highly satisfactory in term of binding site hit accuracy.







