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Nature Research, Nature Protocols, 1(1), p. 368-374, 2006

DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.56

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Locating potential enhancer elements by comparative genomics using the EEL software

Journal article published in 2006 by Kimmo Palin ORCID, Jussi Taipale, Esko Ukkonen
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

This protocol describes the use of Enhancer Element Locator (EEL), a computer program that was designed to locate distal enhancer elements in long mammalian sequences. EEL will predict the location and structure of conserved enhancers after being provided with two orthologous DNA sequences and binding specificity matrices for the transcription factors (TFs) that are expected to contribute to the function of the enhancers to be identified. The freely available EEL software can analyze two 1-Mb sequences with 100 TF motifs in about 15 min on a modern Windows, Linux or Mac computer. The output provides several hypotheses about enhancer location and structure for further evaluation by an expert on enhancer function.