CisTF:Software to find Transcription Factor/Binding Site Pairs

Philip Benfey
Department of Biology
New York University
philip.benfey@nyu.edu

Ken Birnbaum
Department of Biology
New York University
kdb4348@is.nyu.edu

Dennis Shasha (code author)
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Department of Computer Science
New York University
shasha@cs.nyu.edu
http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/index.html


Motivation

Microarray experiments generate expresion data. Entire genomic sequences are known. Many transcription factors are known. Wouldn't it be nice to make good guesses as to transcription factor binding sites from this information. This suite of software is meant to do that.


Description

The cistf programs run in a high performance interpreted environment called K.