cneViewer: a database of conserved non-coding elements for studies of tissue-specific gene regulation
Author(s) -
Jason H Persampieri,
Deborah Ritter,
Daniel Lees,
Jessica A. Lehoczky,
Qiang Li,
Su Guo,
Jeffrey H. Chuang
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn443
Subject(s) - zebrafish , gene , computational biology , genome , coding (social sciences) , biology , conserved sequence , vertebrate , coding region , database , genetics , computer science , base sequence , statistics , mathematics
There are thousands of strongly conserved non-coding elements (CNEs) in vertebrate genomes, and their functions remain largely unknown. However, without biologically relevant criteria for prioritizing them, selecting a particular CNE sequences to study can be haphazard. To address this problem, we present cneViewer-a database and webtool that systematizes information on conserved non-coding DNA elements in zebrafish. A key feature here is the ability to search for CNEs that may be relevant to tissue-specific gene regulation, based on known developmental expression patterns of nearby genes. cneViewer provides this and other organizing features that significantly facilitate experimental design and CNE analysis.
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