WordSeeker: concurrent bioinformatics software for discovering genome-wide patterns and word-based genomic signatures

摘要

BackgroundAn important focus of genomic science is the discovery and characterization of all functional elements within genomes. In silico methods are used in genome studies to discover putative regulatory genomic elements (called words or motifs). Although a number of methods have been developed for motif discovery, most of them lack the scalability needed to analyze large genomic data sets.