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We present an automated approach for identifying and annotating motifs and domains in protein sequences, using pretrained Protein Language Models (PLMs) and Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs), adapted from interpretability research in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-27 Ahmad Shamail , Claire D. McWhite

In the Pattern Masking for Dictionary Matching (PMDM) problem, we are given a dictionary $\mathcal{D}$ of $d$ strings, each of length $\ell$, a query string $q$ of length $\ell$, and a positive integer $z$, and we are asked to compute a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Huiping Chen , Peter Christen , Grigorios Loukides , Nadia Pisanti , Solon P. Pissis , Jakub Radoszewski

The search for patterns or motifs in data represents a problem area of key interest to finance and economic researchers. In this paper we introduce the Motif Tracking Algorithm, a novel immune inspired pattern identification tool that is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-05 William Wilson , Philip Birkin , Uwe Aickelin

This article introduces idMotif, a visual analytics framework designed to aid domain experts in the identification of motifs within protein sequences. Motifs, short sequences of amino acids, are critical for understanding the distinct…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-12 Ji Hwan Park , Vikash Prasad , Sydney Newsom , Fares Najar , Rakhi Rajan

DNA motif discovery is an important issue in gene research, which aims to identify transcription factor binding sites (i.e., motifs) in DNA sequences to reveal the mechanisms that regulate gene expression. However, the phenomenon of data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yao Chen , Wensheng Gan , Gengsen Huang , Yongdong Wu , Philip S. Yu

Sequential pattern mining (SPM) is an important technique of pattern mining, which has many applications in reality. Although many efficient sequential pattern mining algorithms have been proposed, there are few studies can focus on target…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Gengsen Huang , Wensheng Gan , Philip S. Yu

Protein Fragment Motif Finder (PFMFind) is a system that enables efficient discovery of relationships between short fragments of protein sequences using similarity search. It supports queries based on score matrices and PSSMs obtained…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-17 Aleksandar Stojmirović , Peter Andreae , Mike Boland , Thomas William Jordan , Vladimir G. Pestov

The discovery of motifs underlying gene expression is a challenging one. Some of these motifs are known transcription factors, but sequence inspection often provides valuable clues, even discovery of novel motifs with uncharacterized…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Arvind Rao , Alfred O. Hero , David J. States , James Douglas Engel

Network motif provides a way to uncover the basic building blocks of most complex networks. This task usually demands high computer processing, specially for motif with 5 or more vertices. This paper presents an extended methodology with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Luis A. A. Meira , Vinícius R. Máximo , Alvaro L. Fazenda , Arlindo F. da Conceição

Protein sequences are abundant in repeating segments, both as exact copies and as approximate segments with mutations. These repeats are important for protein structure and function, motivating decades of algorithmic work on repeat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Gal Pomerants , Yaniv Nikankin , Anja Reusch , Tomer Tsaban , Ora Schueler-Furman , Yonatan Belinkov

A natural probabilistic model for motif discovery has been used to experimentally test the quality of motif discovery programs. In this model, there are $k$ background sequences, and each character in a background sequence is a random…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Bin Fu , Yunhui Fu

Motifs are the most repetitive/frequent patterns of a time-series. The discovery of motifs is crucial for practitioners in order to understand and interpret the phenomena occurring in sequential data. Currently, motifs are searched among…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Josif Grabocka , Nicolas Schilling , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Finding repeated patterns or motifs in a time series is an important unsupervised task that has still a number of open issues, starting by the definition of motif. In this paper, we revise the notion of motif support, characterizing it as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Joan Serrà , Aleksandar Matic , Josep Luis Arcos , Alexandros Karatzoglou

Scaling laws have allowed Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) into the field of causal reasoning. Causal reasoning of PLM relies solely on text-based descriptions, in contrast to causal discovery which aims to determine the causal…

The problem of motif detection can be formulated as the construction of a discriminant function to separate sequences of a specific pattern from background. In computational biology, motif detection is used to predict DNA binding sites of a…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2010-12-10 Qing Zhou

Searching for all occurrences of a pattern in a text is a fundamental problem in computer science with applications in many other fields, like natural language processing, information retrieval and computational biology. In the last two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Simone Faro , M. Oguzhan Külekci

Background: The computation of the statistical properties of motif occurrences has an obviously relevant practical application: for example, patterns that are significantly over- or under-represented in the genome are interesting candidates…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-01 Paolo Ribeca , Emanuele Raineri

In this paper we describe two simple, fast, space-efficient algorithms for finding all matches of an indeterminate pattern $p = p[1..m]$ in an indeterminate string $x = x[1..n]$, where both $p$ and $x$ are defined on a "small" ordered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Hossein Dehghani , Neerja Mhaskar , W. F. Smyth

The identification of low-energy conformers for a given molecule is a fundamental problem in computational chemistry and cheminformatics. We assess here a conformer search that employs a genetic algorithm for sampling the low-energy segment…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-24 Adriana Supady , Volker Blum , Carsten Baldauf

The Spatial Pattern Matching (SPM) query allows for the retrieval of Points of Interest (POIs) based on spatial patterns defined by keywords and distance criteria. However, it does not consider the connectivity between POIs. In this study,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Carlos Minervino , Claudio Campelo , Maxwell Oliveira , Salatiel Silva