Tracking evolution's footprints in the genome

AUTOR(ES)

Weitzman, Jonathan B

FONTE

BioMed Central

RESUMO

The strategy of using 'phylogenetic footprinting' to find regulatory sites that are conserved between pairs of related complex genomes has led to the development of a suite of computational tools that succeed in finding functionally important transcription-factor-binding sequences.

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