[bip] online sites for doing binding site search

Titus Brown titus at caltech.edu
Fri Nov 30 14:23:25 PST 2007


On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:02:27PM -0800, Erich Schwarz wrote:
-> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Titus Brown wrote:
-> 
-> > ...  I'm writing a short review/HOWTO on finding cis-regulatory
-> > elements in chick ...
-> 
->     My own jaundiced view is that there is no particularly good
-> search tool out there yet.  Of course, that means opportunity! for
-> those of us trying to make better search tools...

Maybe I'm going one level more cynical than you, but I also think the
dearth of effective tools (and the ubiquity of mediocre ones) points to
the difficulty of the problem.  So the opportunity has to be weighed
against the likelihood that this is just a real hard problem...

thanks,
--titus



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