In that case, experimenting with some promoter datasets sounds like a great
hackathon project!
On Mar 20, 2014 7:21 AM, "Ged Yebron" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Promoters are regions of the DNA sequence that signal the start of a gene
> during the process of
> transcription, a rst process involved in protein synthesis. The problem of
> promoter identi cation is
> of major importance within bioinformatics, for two main reasons. First,
> identifying promoters is a
> signi cant step in the process of detecting genes. Second, promoters are
> essential in the regulation
> of the expression of genes. As the conditions for a DNA sequence to
> function as a promoter are not
> known, machine learning methods are suitable to approach this problem
> because they can learn useful
> descriptions of concepts when given only instances - DNA sequences that
> are assumed to contain
> underlying but unknown patterns of base pairs (Bocicor, 2013).
>
> Some neural network algorithms were tried but failed.  I wonder if CLA can
> predict better.
>
>
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