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Nucleic Acids Research 2007 35(Web Server issue):W227-W231; doi:10.1093/nar/gkm362
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2007, Vol. 35, No. suppl_2 W227-W231
© 2007 The Author(s)
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Melina II: a web tool for comparisons among several predictive algorithms to find potential motifs from promoter regions

Toshiyuki Okumura1, Hiroki Makiguchi1, Yuko Makita2, Riu Yamashita3 and Kenta Nakai3,*

1Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co. Ltd, 2RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center and 3Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +81-3-5449-5131; Fax: +81-3-5449-5133; Email: knakai{at}ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Received January 30, 2007. Revised April 13, 2007. Accepted April 25, 2007.

We present the second version of Melina, a web-based tool for promoter analysis. Melina II shows potential DNA motifs in promoter regions with a combination of several available programs, Consensus, MEME, Gibbs sampler, MDscan and Weeder, as well as several parameter settings. It allows running a maximum of four programs simultaneously, and comparing their results with graphical representations. In addition, users can build a weight matrix from a predicted motif and apply it to upstream sequences of several typical genomes (human, mouse, S. cerevisiae, E. coli, B. subtilis or A. thaliana) or to public motif databases (JASPAR or DBTBS) in order to find similar motifs. Melina II is a client/server system developed by using Adobe (Macromedia) Flash and is accessible over the web at http://melina.hgc.jp.


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