Locating mammalian transcription factor binding sites: A survey of computational and experimental techniques
- 1 Genomic Functional Analysis Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland 20878, USA;
- 2 Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California–Davis, Davis, California 95616-8645, USA;
- 3 Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5Z-4E6
Abstract
Fields such as genomics and systems biology are built on the synergism between computational and experimental techniques. This type of synergism is especially important in accomplishing goals like identifying all functional transcription factor binding sites in vertebrate genomes. Precise detection of these elements is a prerequisite to deciphering the complex regulatory networks that direct tissue specific and lineage specific patterns of gene expression. This review summarizes approaches for in silico, in vitro, and in vivo identification of transcription factor binding sites. A variety of techniques useful for localized- and high-throughput analyses are discussed here, with emphasis on aspects of data generation and verification.
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↵4 Corresponding author.
↵4 E-mail elnitski{at}mail.nih.gov; fax (301) 435-6170.
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[Supplemental material is available online at www.genome.org.]
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Article published online before print. Article and publication date at http://www.genome.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gr.4140006
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Freely available online through the Genome Research Open Access option.
- Copyright © 2006, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
