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ABSTRACT: Motivation
Clusters of protein-DNA interaction events involving the same transcription factor are known to act as key components of invertebrate and mammalian promoters and enhancers. However, detecting closely spaced homotypic events from ChIP-Seq data is challenging because random variation in the ChIP fragmentation process obscures event locations.Results
The Genome Positioning System (GPS) can predict protein-DNA interaction events at high spatial resolution from ChIP-Seq data, while retaining the ability to resolve closely spaced events that appear as a single cluster of reads. GPS models observed reads using a complexity penalized mixture model and efficiently predicts event locations with a segmented EM algorithm. An optional mode permits GPS to align common events across distinct experiments. GPS detects more joint events in synthetic and actual ChIP-Seq data and has superior spatial resolution when compared with other methods. In addition, the specificity and sensitivity of GPS are superior to or comparable with other methods.Availability
http://cgs.csail.mit.edu/gps.
SUBMITTER: Guo Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2995123 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guo Yuchun Y Papachristoudis Georgios G Altshuler Robert C RC Gerber Georg K GK Jaakkola Tommi S TS Gifford David K DK Mahony Shaun S
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<h4>Motivation</h4>Clusters of protein-DNA interaction events involving the same transcription factor are known to act as key components of invertebrate and mammalian promoters and enhancers. However, detecting closely spaced homotypic events from ChIP-Seq data is challenging because random variation in the ChIP fragmentation process obscures event locations.<h4>Results</h4>The Genome Positioning System (GPS) can predict protein-DNA interaction events at high spatial resolution from ChIP-Seq dat ...[more]