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A tool to find regulatory motifs in 5'UTR? - (Feb/07/2007 )

Hi
I wonder if someone could recommend me a good program, which enable finding putative translational regulatory sequences in UTRs of genes, especially in 5' UTR?
Lukasz

-luukasz4-

Hi,

you can try UTRscan
http://www.ba.itb.cnr.it/BIG/UTRScan/

registration is necessary to use the program, but it's free

-dpo-

You could also try RSAT at http://rsat.ulb.ac.be/rsat/
I heard MatInspector and MEME are also good programs. Last year there was a paper in some Nature journal where the guy compared many such programs. It will be worth to take a look at that paper.

-Jiang M-