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We propose a novel but simple method to improve a poorly estimated PWM using ChIP data.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Methodology: Starting from an existing PWM, a set of ChIP sequences, and a set of background sequences, our method, GAPWM, derives an improved PWM via a genetic algorithm that maximizes the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. GAPWM can easily incorporate prior information such as base conservation. We tested our method on two PMWs (Oct4\/Sox2 and p53) using three recently published ChIP data sets (human Oct4, mouse Oct4 and human p53).<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: GAPWM substantially increased the sensitivity\/specificity of a poorly estimated PWM and further improved the quality of a good PWM. Furthermore, it still functioned when the starting PWM contained a major error. The ROC performance of GAPWM compared favorably with that of MEME and others. With increasing availability of ChIP data, our method provides an alternative for obtaining high-quality PWMs for genome-wide identification of transcription factor binding sites.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability: The C source code and all data used in this report are available at http:\/\/dir.niehs.nih.gov\/dirbb\/gapwm<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0li3@niehs.nih.gov<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btm080","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,3,7]],"date-time":"2007-03-07T03:01:32Z","timestamp":1173236492000},"page":"1188-1194","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["GAPWM: a genetic algorithm method for optimizing a position weight matrix"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Leping","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Biostatistics Branch and 2Computational Biology Facility, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Biostatistics Branch and 2Computational Biology Facility, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA"}]},{"given":"Robert L.","family":"Bass","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Biostatistics Branch and 2Computational Biology Facility, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2007,3,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023041104475542000_","first-page":"28","article-title":"Fitting a mixture model by expectation maximization to discover motifs in biopolymers","volume-title":"Proceedings of Second International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology","author":"Bailey","year":"1994"},{"key":"2023041104475542000_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"947","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cell.2005.08.020","article-title":"Core transcriptional regulatory circuitry in human embryonic stem cells","volume":"122","author":"Boyer","year":"2005","journal-title":"Cell"},{"key":"2023041104475542000_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2933","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bti473","article-title":"MatInspector and beyond: promoter analysis based on transcription factor binding sites","volume":"21","author":"Cartharius","year":"2005","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"2023041104475542000_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"S100","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/18.suppl_2.S100","article-title":"Identifying transcription factor binding sites through Markov chain optimization","volume":"18","author":"Ellrott","year":"2002","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"2023041104475542000_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"636","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1105136","article-title":"The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) Project","volume":"306","author":"ENCODE Project Consortium","year":"2004","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"2023041104475542000_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1372","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/gkh299","article-title":"Detection of functional DNA motifs via statistical over-representation","volume":"32","author":"Frith","year":"2004","journal-title":"Nucleic Acids Res."},{"key":"2023041104475542000_","volume-title":"Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning","author":"Goldberg","year":"1989"},{"key":"2023041104475542000_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"279","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2105-7-279","article-title":"Optimized mixed Markov models for motif identification","volume":"7","author":"Huang","year":"2006","journal-title":"BMC Bioinformatics"},{"key":"2023041104475542000_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"563","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/15.7.563","article-title":"Identifying DNA and protein patterns with statistically significant alignments of multiple sequences","volume":"15","author":"Hertz","year":"1999","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"2023041104475542000_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1205","DOI":"10.1006\/jmbi.2000.3519","article-title":"Computational identification of cis-regulatory elements associated with groups of functionally related genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae","volume":"296","author":"Hughes","year":"2000","journal-title":"J. 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