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Determining promoter location based on DNA structure first-principles calculations

J Ramon Goñi1,2,3, Alberto Pérez1,2, David Torrents4,5 and Modesto Orozco1,4,6*

Author Affiliations

1 Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Josep Samitier, Barcelona 08028, Spain

2 Departament de Bioquímica i Biología Molecular, Facultat de Biología, Avgda Diagonal, Barcelona 08028, Spain

3 Grup de recerca en Bioinformàtica i Estadística Mèdica, Departament de Biologia de Sistemes, Universitat de Vic. Laura, 13 08500 VIC, Spain

4 Computational Biology Program, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Jordi Girona, Edifici Torre Girona, Barcelona 08028, Spain

5 Institut Català per la Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluís Companys, 23. Barcelona 08010, Spain

6 Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática, Structural Bioinformatics Unit, Parc Cientific de Barcelona, Josep Samitier, Barcelona 08028, USA

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R263 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-12-r263

Published: 11 December 2007

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Supplementary figures showing plots of dinucleotide helical parameters and additional performance tests of ProStar.

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Promoter prediction methods described in this paper and a detailed evaluation of their performance.

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Extended description of the performance test and the averaged score measure.

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