title: A varying threshold method for ChIP peak-calling using multiple sources of information.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Gene regulation commonly involves interaction among DNA, proteins and biochemical conditions. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) technologies, protein-DNA interactions are routinely detected in the genome scale. Computational methods that detect weak protein-binding signals and simultaneously maintain a high specificity yet remain to be challenging. An attractive approach is to incorporate biologically relevant data, such as protein co-occupancy, to improve the power of protein-binding detection. We call the additional data related with the target protein binding as supporting tracks.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We propose a novel but rigorous statistical method to identify protein occupancy in ChIP data using multiple supporting tracks (PASS2). We demonstrate that utilizing biologically related information can significantly increase the discovery of true protein-binding sites, while still maintaining a desired level of false positive calls. Applying the method to GATA1 restoration in mouse erythroid cell line, we detected many new GATA1-binding sites using GATA1 co-occupancy data.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://stat.psu.edu/ approximately yuzhang/pass2.tar.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
authors.forename: Kuan-Bei
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002460:Cell Line; D047369:Chromatin Immunoprecipitation / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism; D050982:GATA1 Transcription Factor / Q000378:metabolism*; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D051379:Mice; D011485:Protein Binding
chemical_list: D050982:GATA1 Transcription Factor; C494689:Gata1 protein, mouse; D004247:DNA
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