Mining poly-regions in DNA
by Panagiotis Papapetrou; Gary Benson; George Kollios
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB), Vol. 6, No. 4, 2012

Abstract: We study the problem of mining poly-regions in DNA. A poly-region is defined as a bursty DNA area, i.e., area of elevated frequency of a DNA pattern. We introduce a general formulation that covers a range of meaningful types of poly-regions and develop three efficient detection methods. The first applies recursive segmentation and is entropy-based. The second uses a set of sliding windows that summarize each sequence segment using several statistics. Finally, the third employs a technique based on majority vote. The proposed algorithms are tested on DNA sequences of four different organisms in terms of recall and runtime.

Online publication date: Wed, 17-Dec-2014

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