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Hi Shouyong, On 08/10/2012 10:19 AM, Shouyong Peng wrote: > Hello > > I was expecting PWM(x,type="prob") would be equivalent to > censensusMatrix(x, as.prob=TRUE) to give a matrix with colSums to 1. > May I know what is formula for this "prob" in PWM? It uses the algorithm described in this paper: Wasserman, WW, Sandelin, A., (2004) Applied bioinformatics for the identification of regulatory elements, Nat Rev Genet., 5(4):276-87. See PWM() man page for the details. Cheers, H. > > Shouyong -- Hervé Pagès Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 P.O. Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024 E-mail: hpages at fhcrc.org Phone: (206) 667-5791 Fax: (206) 667-1319
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Hi Shouyong, You can have a look at the function makePWM from the package MotIV. Cheers, Eloi On 12-08-10 10:51 AM, Hervé Pagès wrote: > Hi Shouyong, > > On 08/10/2012 10:19 AM, Shouyong Peng wrote: >> Hello >> >> I was expecting PWM(x,type="prob") would be equivalent to >> censensusMatrix(x, as.prob=TRUE) to give a matrix with colSums to 1. >> May I know what is formula for this "prob" in PWM? > > It uses the algorithm described in this paper: > > Wasserman, WW, Sandelin, A., (2004) > Applied bioinformatics for the identification of regulatory > elements, Nat Rev Genet., > 5(4):276-87. > > See PWM() man page for the details. > > Cheers, > H. > >> >> Shouyong > > -- Eloi Mercier Bioinformatics PhD Student, UBC Paul Pavlidis Lab 2185 East Mall University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T1Z4
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Hi Eloi & Herve, Thank you both for your help. Shouyong On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Eloi Mercier <emercier@chibi.ubc.ca> wrote: > Hi Shouyong, > > You can have a look at the function makePWM from the package MotIV. > > Cheers, > Eloi > > > On 12-08-10 10:51 AM, Hervé Pagès wrote: > >> Hi Shouyong, >> >> On 08/10/2012 10:19 AM, Shouyong Peng wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> >>> I was expecting PWM(x,type="prob") would be equivalent to >>> censensusMatrix(x, as.prob=TRUE) to give a matrix with colSums to 1. >>> May I know what is formula for this "prob" in PWM? >>> >> >> It uses the algorithm described in this paper: >> >> Wasserman, WW, Sandelin, A., (2004) >> Applied bioinformatics for the identification of regulatory >> elements, Nat Rev Genet., >> 5(4):276-87. >> >> See PWM() man page for the details. >> >> Cheers, >> H. >> >> >>> Shouyong >>> >> >> >> > > -- > Eloi Mercier > Bioinformatics PhD Student, UBC > Paul Pavlidis Lab > 2185 East Mall > University of British Columbia > Vancouver BC V6T1Z4 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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