Lecture 9: Modeling and Discovery of Sequence Motifs
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This lecture by Prof. Christopher Burge covers modeling and discovery of sequence motifs. He gives the example of the Gibbs sampling algorithm. He covers information content of a motif, and he ends with parameter estimation for motif models.
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