title: SFmap: a web server for motif analysis and prediction of splicing factor binding sites.
abstract: Alternative splicing (AS) is a post-transcriptional process considered to be responsible for the huge diversity of proteins in higher eukaryotes. AS events are regulated by different splicing factors (SFs) that bind to sequence elements on the RNA. SFmap is a web server for predicting putative SF binding sites in genomic data (http://sfmap.technion.ac.il). SFmap implements the COS(WR) algorithm, which computes similarity scores for a given regulatory motif based on information derived from its sequence environment and its evolutionary conservation. Input for SFmap is a human genomic sequence or a list of sequences in FASTA format that can either be uploaded from a file or pasted into a window. SFmap searches within a given sequence for significant hits of binding motifs that are either stored in our database or defined by the user. SFmap results are provided both as a text file and as a graphical web interface.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
authors.forename: Inbal
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Paz
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akerman
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dror
authors.forename: Idit
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kosti
authors.forename: Yael
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mandel-Gutfreund
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D017398:Alternative Splicing; D001665:Binding Sites; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins