Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on April 24, 2008
Briefings in Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bib/bbn016
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The TRANSFAC project as an example of framework technology that supports the analysis of genomic regulation
Corresponding author. Edgar Wingender, Department of Bioinformatics, Medical School, University of Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany. E-mail: e.wingender{at}med.uni-goettingen.de
Since its beginning as a data collection more than 20 years ago, the TRANSFAC project underwent an evolution to become the basis for a complex platform for the description and analysis of gene regulatory events and networks. In the following, I describe what the original concepts were, what their present status is and how they may be expected to contribute to future system biology approaches.
Keywords: TRANSFAC database, transcription regulation, gene expression analysis, pathway analysis
Submitted: January 21, 2008. Received (in revised form): March 11, 2008.