The TRANSFAC project as an example of framework technology that supports the analysis of genomic regulation

E Wingender - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Expanding the TRANSFAC database towards an expert system of regulatory molecular mechanisms

T Heinemeyer, X Chen, H Karas, AE Kel… - Nucleic acids …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
TRANSFAC is a database on transcription factors, their genomic binding sites and DNA-
binding profiles. In addition to being updated and extended by new features, it has been …

Visualization, documentation, analysis, and communication of large-scale gene regulatory networks

WJR Longabaugh, EH Davidson, H Bolouri - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2009 - Elsevier
Genetic regulatory networks (GRNs) are complex, large-scale, and spatially and temporally
distributed. These characteristics impose challenging demands on software tools for …

[PDF][PDF] Identifying gene regulatory networks from experimental data

T Chen, V Filkov, SS Skiena - Proceedings of the third annual …, 1999 - dl.acm.org
As biology enters an era where the genomes of several organisms have been completely
sequenced, the next great challenge is determining gene regulatory networks. Every gene …

TRANSFAC: an integrated system for gene expression regulation

E Wingender, X Chen, R Hehl, H Karas… - Nucleic acids …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
TRANSFAC is a database on transcription factors, their genomic binding sites and DNA-
binding profiles (http://transfac. gbf. de/TRANSFAC/). Its content has been enhanced, in …

The TRANSFAC system on gene expression regulation

E Wingender, X Chen, E Fricke, R Geffers… - Nucleic acids …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
The TRANSFAC database on transcription factors and their DNA-binding sites and profiles
(http://www. gene-regulation. de/) has been quantitatively extended and supplemented by a …

Gene networks: how to put the function in genomics

P Brazhnik, A De La Fuente, P Mendes - TRENDS in Biotechnology, 2002 - cell.com
An increasingly popular model of regulation is to represent networks of genes as if they
directly affect each other. Although such gene networks are phenomenological because …

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

S Aerts, P Van Loo, G Thijs, H Mayer… - Nucleic acids …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
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 …

TRANSFAC, TRRD and COMPEL: towards a federated database system on transcriptional regulation

E Wingender, AE Kel, OV Kel, H Karas… - Nucleic Acids …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
Three databases that provide data on transcriptional regulation are described. TRANSFAC
is a database on transcription factors and their DNA binding sites. TRRD (Transcription …

[HTML][HTML] The Annotation, Mapping, Expression and Network (AMEN) suite of tools for molecular systems biology

F Chalmel, M Primig - BMC bioinformatics, 2008 - Springer
Background High-throughput genome biological experiments yield large and multifaceted
datasets that require flexible and user-friendly analysis tools to facilitate their interpretation …