MotifAdjuster

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by Jens Keilwagen, Jan Baumbach, Thomas A. Kohl and Ivo Grosse.

Description

Valuable binding site annotation data are stored in databases. However, several types of errors can, and do, occur in the process of manually incorporating annotation data from scientific literature into these databases. Here, we introduce MotifAdjuster, a software that helps to detect these errors, and we demonstrate its efficacy on public data sets.

Paper

The paper MotifAdjuster: a tool for computational reassessment of transcription factor binding site annotations has been published in Genome Biology.

Download

MotifAdjuster can be downloaded here.

Start instructions

If you have unzipped the archive, you can start the MotifAdjuster by invoking

java -cp ./:./jstacs-1.2.2.jar:./numericalMethods.jar MotifAdjuster <file> <ignoreChar> <length> <fgOrder> <fgEss> <bothStrands> <output> <sigma> <p(no motif)>

In Windows, you have to use ";" instead of ":" in the class path.

The arguments have the following meaning

name comment type

file the location of the data set String
ignoreChar char for comment lines (e.g. for a FastA-file '>') char
length the motif length int
fgOrder the order of the inhomogeneous Markov model that is uses for the motif; 0 yields in a PWM byte
ess the equivalent sample size that is used for the mixture model double >= 0
bothStrands use both strands boolean
output output of the EM boolean
sigma the sigma of the truncated discrete Gaussian distribution double>0
p(no motif) the probability for finding no motif 0<=double<1


Remark

The authors of SeSiMCMC informed us that the performance of SeSiMCMC could be improved by using the latest version of SeSiMCMC (version 4.31 from 2009-04-23) and by using the advanced option Background model is common (static) set to the value TRUE. Hence, we provide an updated version of additional file 1.