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Improving MEME via a two-tiered significance analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

With over 9000 unique users recorded in the first half of 2013, MEME is one of the most popular motif-finding tools available. Reliable estimates of the statistical significance of motifs can greatly increase the usefulness of any motif finder. By analogy, it is difficult to imagine evaluating a BLAST result without its accompanying E-value. Currently MEME evaluates its EM-generated candidate motifs using an extension of BLAST's E-value to the motif-finding context. Although we previously indicated the drawbacks of MEME's current significance evaluation, we did not offer a practical substitute suited for its needs, especially because MEME also relies on the E-value internally to rank competing candidate motifs.

Results

Here we offer a two-tiered significance analysis that can replace the E-value in selecting the best candidate motif and in evaluating its overall statistical significance. We show that our new approach could substantially improve MEME's motif-finding performance and would also provide the user with a reliable significance analysis. In addition, for large input sets, our new approach is in fact faster than the currently implemented E-value analysis.

SUBMITTER: Tanaka E

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4080741 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Improving MEME via a two-tiered significance analysis.

Tanaka Emi E Bailey Timothy L TL Keich Uri U

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20140324 14

<h4>Motivation</h4>With over 9000 unique users recorded in the first half of 2013, MEME is one of the most popular motif-finding tools available. Reliable estimates of the statistical significance of motifs can greatly increase the usefulness of any motif finder. By analogy, it is difficult to imagine evaluating a BLAST result without its accompanying E-value. Currently MEME evaluates its EM-generated candidate motifs using an extension of BLAST's E-value to the motif-finding context. Although w ...[more]

PMID: 24665130

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Improving MEME via a two-tiered significance analysis.

Motivation

Results

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Improving MEME via a two-tiered significance analysis.

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