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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Grau, Jan"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    A general approach for discriminative de novo motif discovery from high-throughput data
    (German conference on bioinformatics 2014, 2014) Grau, Jan; Posch, Stefan; Grosse, Ivo; Keilwagen, Jens
    High-throughput techniques like ChIP-seq, ChIP-exo, and protein binding microarrays (PBMs) demand for novel de novo motif discovery approaches that focus on accuracy and runtime on large data sets. While specialized algorithms have been designed for discovering motifs in in-vivo ChIP-seq/ChIP-exo or in in-vitro PBM data, none of these works equally well for all these high-throughput techniques. Here, we present Dimont, a general approach for fast and accurate de-novo motif discovery from high-throughput data, which achieves a competitive performance on both ChIP-seq and PBM data compared to recent approaches specifically designed for either technique. Hence, Dimont allows for investigating differences between in-vitro and in-vivo binding in an unbiased manner using a unified approach. For most transcription factors, Dimont discovers similar motifs from in-vivo and in-vitro data, but we also find notable exceptions. Scrutinizing the benefit of modeling dependencies between binding site positions, we find that more complex motif models often increase prediction performance and, hence, are a worthwhile field of research. Original paper: doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt831
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    Predicting miRNA targets utilizing an extended profile HMM
    (German Conference on Bioinformatics 2010, 2010) Grau, Jan; Arend, Daniel; Grosse, Ivo; Hatzigeorgiou, Artemis G.; Keilwagen, Jens; Maragkakis, Manolis; Weinholdt, Claus; Posch, Stefan
    The regulation of many cellular processes is influenced by miRNAs, and bioinformatics approaches for predicting miRNA targets evolve rapidly. Here, we propose conditional profile HMMs that learn rules of miRNA-target site interaction automatically from data. We demonstrate that conditional profile HMMs detect the rules implemented into existing approaches from their predictions. And we show that a simple UTR model utilizing conditional profile HMMs predicts target genes of miR- NAs with a precision that is competitive compared to leading approaches, although it does not exploit cross-species conservation.
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    Supervised posteriors for DNA-motif classification
    (German conference on bioinformatics – GCB 2007, 2007) Grau, Jan; Keilwagen, Jens; Kel, Alexander; Grosse, Ivo; Posch, Stefan
    Markov models have been proposed for the classification of DNA-motifs using generative approaches for parameter learning. Here, we propose to apply the discriminative paradigm for this problem and study two different priors to facilitate parameter estimation using the maximum supervised posterior. Considering seven sets of eukaryotic transcription factor binding sites we find this approach to be superior employing area under the ROC curve and false positive rate as performance criterion, and better in general using sensitivity. In addition, we discuss potential reasons for the improved performance.