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. 2013 Aug 15;29(16):2059-61.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt318. Epub 2013 Jun 4.

Whole-Genome rVISTA: a tool to determine enrichment of transcription factor binding sites in gene promoters from transcriptomic data

Inna Dubchak  1 , Matthew Munoz, Alexandre Poliakov, Nathan Salomonis, Simon Minovitsky, Rolf Bodmer, Alexander C Zambon
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Whole-Genome rVISTA: a tool to determine enrichment of transcription factor binding sites in gene promoters from transcriptomic data

Inna Dubchak et al. Bioinformatics. .

Abstract

Summary: We have developed a web-based query tool, Whole-Genome rVISTA (WGRV), that determines enrichment of transcription factors (TFs) and associated target genes in sets of co-regulated genes. WGRV enables users to query databases containing pre-computed genome coordinates of evolutionarily conserved transcription factor binding sites in the proximal promoters (from 100 bp to 5 kb upstream) of human, mouse and Drosophila genomes. TF binding sites are based on position-weight matrices from the TRANSFAC Professional database. For a given set of co-regulated genes, WGRV returns statistically enriched and evolutionarily conserved binding sites, mapped by the regulatory VISTA (rVISTA) algorithm. Users can then retrieve a list of genes from the query set containing the enriched TF binding sites and their location in the query set promoters. Results are exported in a BED format for rapid visualization in the UCSC genome browser. Flat files of mapped conserved sites and their genomic coordinates are also available for analysis with stand-alone software.

Availability: http://genome.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/WGRVistaInputCommon.pl.

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