In article <465uac$qik at dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
Mari.L.Shinohara at dartmouth.edu (Mari L. Shinohara) wrote:
> I'd like to know any information that makes me available to know what
> cis-acting elements a promoter region sequence has. I tried the BLAST
> search but, as you know, this is rather for searching similar genes and
> not good for finding "protein binding site sequence", which usually
> consist of a short strech of sequence.
Try the TFSEARCH server that is intended for locating known
binding motifs of transcription factors.
The URL is http://www.genome.ad.jp/SIT/TFSEARCH.html
Kenta Nakai
Osaka University, Japan