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TOUCAN 2: the all-inclusive open source workbench for regulatory sequence analysis.

Nucleic acids research ·Vol. 33 ·No. Web Server issue ·2005-07-01 ·Pages W393-6

Aerts S, Van Loo P, Thijs G, Mayer H, de Martin R, Moreau Y, De Moor B

Abstract

We present the second and improved release of the TOUCAN workbench for cis-regulatory sequence analysis. TOUCAN implements and integrates fast state-of-the-art methods and strategies in gene regulation bioinformatics, including algorithms for comparative genomics and for the detection of cis-regulatory modules. This second release of TOUCAN has become open source and thereby carries the potential to evolve rapidly. The main goal of TOUCAN is to allow a user to come to testable hypotheses regarding the regulation of a gene or of a set of co-regulated genes. TOUCAN can be launched from this location: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~saerts/software/toucan.php.

MeSH Terms
Algorithms Gene Expression Regulation Genomics Internet Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid Sequence Analysis, DNA/methods Software User-Computer Interface
Authors & Affiliations
7 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Aerts Stein
Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Department of Human Genetics, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology and K.U.Leuven Belgium. [email protected]
Van Loo Peter
Thijs Gert
Mayer Herbert
de Martin Rainer
Moreau Yves
De Moor Bart
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Article Info
Journal
Nucleic acids research
Abbr.
Nucleic Acids Res
ISSN
1362-4962
DOI
10.1093/nar/gki354
Email
[email protected]
Published
2005-07-01
Pages
W393-6
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
0411011
PMCID
PMC1160115
Subset
IM
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PubMed source DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki354 PMC Full Text View journal details
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