title: Melina: motif extraction from promoter regions of potentially co-regulated genes.
abstract: 'Melina' assists users to compare the results of four public softwares for DNA motif extraction in order to both confirm the reliability of each finding and avoid missing important motifs. It is also useful to optimize the sensitivity of software with a series of different parameter settings.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Melina is available at http://www.hgc.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Melina/.
authors.affiliation: Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan.
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Poluliakh
authors.forename: Toshihisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takagi
authors.forename: Kenta
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakai
mesh_terms: D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D011786:Quality Control; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins