Querying a Database of regulatory Elements

In this paper, we present a new approach that will facilitate the process of drawing meaningful conclusions that are likely to be useful to a biologist who may be interested in only a specific functional aspect of the organism (rather than the entire genome). This is achieved by constructing a comprehensive relational database and an intelligent, userfriendly query system. With the help of simple examples, we show how a biologist with no prior knowledge of databases can use this system. Our database can be queried from the URL: http://biorg.cs.fiu.edu/TFBM/

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