Search of regular sequences in promoters from eukaryotic genomes.
In this paper, the notion of "regularity" is introduced to describe the structural features of DNA sequences. This notion expands the "latent periodicity" term. The novel method for revealing regularity based on the runs test is described. The search of regular sequences in eukaryotic promoters has shown that more than 60% of them possess a regularity property on statistically significant level. Possible biological functions of regularity are discussed together with the possibility of using this characteristic for performing promoter annotation.
Shelenkov
Andrew
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Bioengineering Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, 117312 Moscow, Pr-t 60-tya Oktyabrya, 7/1, Russian Federation. fallandar@gmail.com
Korotkov
Eugene
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D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*