Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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421259 | Discrete Applied Mathematics | 2011 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Structured motifs with arbitrary number of boxes are considered. In particular, such motifs are of interest in molecular biology for identifying gene promoters along genomes. Neat closed-form expressions for relevant distributions associated with occurrences of structured motifs are derived. Our methodology is based on developing a suitable semi-Markov embedding of the problem. A numerical example is also provided.
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Authors
Valeri T. Stefanov, Stéphane Robin, Sophie Schbath,