Abstract
Comparative sequence analysis has been a powerful tool in bioinformatics which interprets knowledge about the functionality of a sequence, making use of its structural information. Among the non coding regions of DNA, the comparison of promoter sequences has received a great deal of attention in medical science as promoter regions play a crucial role in gene regulation. In this work we propose an alignment free sequence comparison metric for comparison of promoter sequences. We use the binary and decimal position specific motif matrices (PSMM) of the promoters which were created for our experiments using the TFSEARCH tool. Simple weighted algorithm is used to compute the dissimilarity between the PSMMs of promoter sequences, thereby analyzing its underlying homology and functionality. The NCBI database was used to obtain the promoter sequences of 500 nucleotides upstream the transcription start site (TSS) of enzyme pyruvate kinase (PKLR) from the glycolysis pathway of different organisms for one experiment and all the enzymes from the glycolysis pathway of organism human for the other. The proposed dissimilarity metric is successful in bringing out differences on both the datasets and the results regarding similarities and differences in promoter sequences could be essential to have a clear knowledge of transcription regulation process in different organisms.The results reveal some useful findings which can be extended for a broader investigation.
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