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

摘要

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.