Extended sequence features in DNA


Rahul Siddharthan
IMSc, Chennai

We discuss a new method of analysing data for chromatin immunopresentation + sequencing (CHiP-seq), a high-throughput assay for identifying in vivo binding sites for DNA binding proteins. In addition to known short "motifs" representing binding preferences for transcription factors, we find sequence features over an extended range. Such sequence signals seem ubiquitous in DNA and we discuss possible origins.