ReLA, a local alignment search tool for the identification of distal and proximal gene regulatory regions and their conserved transcription factor binding sites.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

The prediction and annotation of the genomic regions involved in gene expression has been largely explored. Most of the energy has been devoted to the development of approaches that detect transcription start sites, leaving the identification of regulatory regions and their functional transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) largely unexplored and with important quantitative and qualitative methodological gaps.

Results

We have developed ReLA (for REgulatory region Local Alignment tool), a unique tool optimized with the Smith-Waterman algorithm that allows local searches of conserved TFBS clusters and the detection of regulatory regions proximal to genes and enhancer regions. ReLA's performance shows specificities of 81 and 50% when tested on experimentally valid

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3307110 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature