JASPAR: an open-access database for eukaryotic transcription factor binding profiles

TLDR

Regulatory region analysis relies on detecting transcription factor binding sites, typically represented by position‑specific scoring matrices. JASPAR provides an open‑access collection of high‑quality, matrix‑based transcription factor binding profiles for multicellular eukaryotes, derived solely from experimentally validated sequences and supported by a web interface, sequence‑analysis utility, and programming tools for genome‑wide and comparative studies. JASPAR is available at http://jaspar and cgb.ki.se.

Abstract

The analysis of regulatory regions in genome sequences is strongly based on the detection of potential transcription factor binding sites. The preferred models for representation of transcription factor binding specificity have been termed position-specific scoring matrices. JASPAR is an open-access database of annotated, high-quality, matrix-based transcription factor binding site profiles for multicellular eukaryotes. The profiles were derived exclusively from sets of nucleotide sequences experimentally demonstrated to bind transcription factors. The database is complemented by a web interface for browsing, searching and subset selection, an online sequence analysis utility and a suite of programming tools for genome-wide and comparative genomic analysis of regulatory regions. JASPAR is available at http://jaspar. cgb.ki.se.