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Such discovery has been significantly hampered by the high A-T content of some of the genomes of Plasmodium species, as well as the challenge in associating discovered regulatory elements to gene regulatory cascades due to Plasmodium's complex life cycle.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We report a new method of using comparative genomics to systematically discover motifs in Plasmodium without requiring any functional data. Different from previous methods, our method does not depend on sequence alignments, and thus is particularly suitable for highly divergent genomes. We applied our method to discovering regulatory motifs between the human parasite, P.falciparum, and its rodent-infectious relative, P.yoelii. We also tested our procedure against comparisons between P.falciparum and the primate-infectious, P.knowlesi. Our computational effort leads to an initial catalog of 38 distinct motifs, corresponding to over 16 200 sites in the Plasmodium genome. The functionality of these motifs was further supported by their defined distribution within the genome as well as a correlation with gene expression patterns. This initial map provides a systematic view of gene regulation in Plasmodium, which can be refined as additional genomes become available.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: The new algorithm, named motif discovery using orthologous sequences (MDOS), is available at http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/\u223cxhx\/project\/mdos\/.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0xhx@ics.uci.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btn348","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,7,9]],"date-time":"2008-07-09T04:57:12Z","timestamp":1215579432000},"page":"1843-1849","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Discovering regulatory motifs in the <i>Plasmodium<\/i> genome using comparative genomics"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Jie","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, 2CODA Genomics, Laguna Hills, CA 92656, 3Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and 4Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA"},{"name":"1 Department of Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, 2CODA Genomics, Laguna Hills, CA 92656, 3Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and 4Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA"}]},{"given":"Douglas H.","family":"Sieglaff","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, 2CODA Genomics, Laguna Hills, CA 92656, 3Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and 4Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA"},{"name":"1 Department of Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, 2CODA Genomics, Laguna Hills, CA 92656, 3Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and 4Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA"}]},{"given":"Joshua","family":"Gervin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, 2CODA Genomics, Laguna Hills, CA 92656, 3Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and 4Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA"}]},{"given":"Xiaohui S.","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, 2CODA Genomics, Laguna Hills, CA 92656, 3Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and 4Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA"},{"name":"1 Department of Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, 2CODA Genomics, Laguna Hills, CA 92656, 3Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and 4Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2008,7,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020211091160700_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"212","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/gkg081","article-title":"PlasmoDB: the Plasmodium genome resource. 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