BMC Genomics

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In silico discovery of transcription regulatory elements in Plasmodium falciparum

Jason A Young1, Jeffery R Johnson1, Chris Benner2,3, S Frank Yan4, Kaisheng Chen4, Karine G Le Roch5, Yingyao Zhou4 and Elizabeth A Winzeler1,4*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Cell Biology, ICND 202, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

2 Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

3 Department of Bioengineering, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

4 Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, CA, USA

5 Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:70 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-70

Published: 7 February 2008

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Additional File 1:

Sporozoite-specific OPI cluster seed genes. The 18 P. falciparum sporozoite-related genes used to seed OPI generation of the sporozoite-specific gene cluster GO:GNF0006.

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OPI clusters used for GEMS analysis. The 21 OPI clusters used as the basis for GEMS analysis listed by GO identifier number and cluster size.

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Putative promoter cis-regulatory elements discovered by GEMS. Motif derived from GEMS analysis of 1000 base pair promoter regions upstream of gene start codons.

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Putative intron cis-regulatory elements discovered by GEMS. Motif candidates derived from GEMS analysis of gene intron regions.

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Differentially expressed genes in response to heat shock. Top 75 differentially expressed genes in response to heat shock treatment identified by microarray hybridization and non-parametric Mack-Skillings test.

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P. falciparum mitochondrial TCA cycle gene expression. Life cycle mRNA expression values for P. falciparum mitochondrial TCA cycle genes as determined by microarray hybridization.

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