COMPUTER METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REVEALING PROMOTOR MOTIFS

摘要

A computer search tool and supporting database is presented for use in analyzing genomes. The database is formed from a search of inverted and other repeats in a given genome, especially of motifs having such repeats. Indications of found repeats, length, location in the genome sequence and nearest gene are recorded in the database. The computer search tool includes a search engine, browser and drawing member. The search engine responds to user requests for certain repeats (e.g., specified in terms of length and/or subsequence within). The browser enables viewing of a graphical representation (generated by the drawing member) of the genome, with the repeats highlighted. The invention computer search tool enables analysis of the highlighted repeats against known regulatory sites/promotor motifs of other known sequences or relative to each other across the genome.