Title
A Comparison Study for DNA Motif Modeling on Protein Binding Microarray
Abstract
Transcription Factor Binding Sites (TFBSs) are relatively short (5-15 bp) and degenerate. Identifying them is a computationally challenging task. In particular, Protein Binding Microarray (PBM) is a high-throughput platform that can measure the DNA binding preference of a protein in a comprehensive and unbiased manner; for instance, a typical PBM experiment can measure binding signal intensities of a protein to all possible DNA k-mers (k=810). Since proteins can often bind to DNA with different binding intensities, one of the major challenges is to build motif models which can fully capture the quantitative binding affinity data. To learn DNA motif models from the non-convex objective function landscape, several optimization methods are compared and applied to the PBM motif model building problem. In particular, representative methods from different optimization paradigms have been chosen for modeling performance comparison on hundreds of PBM datasets. The results suggest that the multimodal optimization methods are very effective for capturing the binding preference information from PBM data. In particular, we observe a general performance improvement using di-nucleotide modeling over mono-nucleotide modeling. In addition, the models learned by the best-performing method are applied to two independent applications: PBM probe rotation testing and ChIP-Seq peak sequence prediction, demonstrating its biological applicability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TCBB.2015.2443782
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
Keywords
Field
DocType
crowding,genetic algorithm,protein binding microarray,ranking,transcription factor binding site
Plasma protein binding,Binding site,DNA binding site,Computer science,Ligand (biochemistry),Sequence motif,DNA,Protein Array Analysis,Bioinformatics,Chromatin immunoprecipitation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
2
1545-5963
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ka-Chun Wong129140.18
Li, Y.230.38
Chengbin Peng3202.50
Hau-San Wong4100886.89