Learning PSSMs

• Unsupervised learning methods can be used to find motifs in unaligned sequences

• Best characterized algorithm is MEME

  • T.L. Bailey & C. Elkan (1995) Unsupervised Learning of Multiple Motifs in Biopolymers Using Expectation Maximization. Machine Learning J. 21:51-83

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