Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 35, Issue 1 , Pages 107-119 , September 2005

Computational modeling of oligonucleotide positional densities for human promoter prediction

Received 30 October 2004 ,Revised 31 January 2005 ,Accepted 22 February 2005.

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☆ Availability: Binary executable of the promoter prediction model, named BayesProm, is available at: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/∼bioinfo/BayesProm (accessed: 1 May 2005).

PII: S0933-3657(05)00055-2

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2005.02.005

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 35, Issue 1 , Pages 107-119 , September 2005

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