Research Article

PairMotifChIP: A Fast Algorithm for Discovery of Patterns Conserved in Large ChIP-seq Data Sets

Algorithm 1

PairMotifChIP.
Input: , optional parameters and
Output: a set of motifs
(1) , set the threshold of extracting pairs of -mers
(2) for each pair of -mers () in   do
(3)  ifthen
(4)    add to
(5) for each pair of -mers do
(6)  if  then
(7)     add to
(8)  if  then
(9)     add to
(10) cluster the -mers in
(11)  for each obtained cluster do
(12)  align substrings in it and fetch a segment with high information content to form a motif
(13)  add to
(14) return