MTAP

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MTAP Motif Tool Assessment Platform

[edit] Abstract

Automated regulatory motif detection is a fundamental problem in molecular biology. Currently, there are more than 140 different tools for identification of cis-regulatory motifs. Consequently, it is extremely difficult for the molecular biologist to know which tools are effective even on the most simple of genomes. A root cause of this is a lack of good datasets for benchmarking. The Motif Tool Assessment Platform (MTAP) is a resource for the scientific community with 2 goals: (1) provide an open source benchmarking platform for researchers in de novo motif detection and complementary evaluation datasets for benchmarking and (2) to provide benchmarks to assist the molecular biology community in determining the best tools to use in their domain of interest. Anyone in the community is allowed to edit this wiki, so that we can have the most correct and up to date information.