In article <m_cockerill-2710942044070001 at timpwrmac.clh.icnet.uk>,
m_cockerill at icrf.icnet.uk (Matthew Cockerill) wrote:
> I'm wondering whether there is any analogue of PROSITE which catalogs DNA
> motifs (e.g. transcription factor binding sites, promoter consensus
> sequences, 3'UTR mRNA masking signals, things like that, which occur in
> non coding regions of DNA).
>> Seem it would be very useful.
> Consensus sequences for thousands of these type of motifs are present in
> the literature. Has anyone assembled them in searchable form?
Hi Matt,
Well, there's Ghosh' Transcription Factor Database
(ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/repository/TFD) which contains much of what you're
looking for, and you could agrep (approximate grep, with regular
expresssion search) thru it for hits or make up a perl script to do more
in one pass.
Cheers
harry
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