C. elegans v4 database published

Monica C. Sleumer, Mikhail Bilenky, An He, Gordon Robertson, Nina Thiessen, and Steven J. M. Jones
Caenorhabditis elegans cisRED: a catalogue of conserved genomic elements
Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published on January 16, 2009.
doi:10.1093/nar/gkn1041 M

We present the cisRED C. elegans database. We obtained orthologues for C. elegans protein-coding genes in seven other nematode species and identified conserved elements by de novo motif discovery. This catalogue of annotated conserved upstream elements can be used to find putative regulatory elements, discover novel RNA genes, understand the evolution of transcription factor binding sites, and identify novel binding site candidates for both characterized transcription factors in nematodes and orthologues of characterized mammalian transcription factors.

Online link: http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gkn1041

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