Mining Frequent Spatial Docking Patterns in Zinc Finger - DNA Complexes
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We use techniques of logic-based relational machine learning to automatically detect spatial patterns common to 21 previously described examples of zinc finger DNA complexes. We demonstrate that such patterns can be found and thus the proposed methodology may potentially serve to achieve better understanding of zinc finger DNA binding. Keywords— Structural Genomics, Machine Learning, Data
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تاریخ انتشار 2010