Comprehensive discovery of DNA motifs in 349 human cells and tissues reveals new features of motifs.

ABSTRACT: Comprehensive motif discovery under experimental conditions is critical for the global understanding of gene regulation. To generate a nearly complete list of human DNA motifs under given conditions, we employed a novel approach to de novo discover significant co-occurring DNA motifs in 349 human DNase I hypersensitive site datasets. We predicted 845 to 1325 motifs in each dataset, for a total of 2684 non-redundant motifs. These 2684 motifs contained 54.02 to 75.95% of the known motifs in seven large collections including TRANSFAC. In each dataset, we also discovered 43 663 to 2 013 288 motif modules, groups of motifs with their binding sites co-occurring in a significant number of short DNA regions. Compared with known interacting transcription factors in eight resources, the predicted mo

SUBMITTER: Zheng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4288161 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature