[BiO BB] DNA Promoter
Boris Steipe
boris.steipe at utoronto.ca
Sat Oct 4 12:39:29 EDT 2003
> Malik Yousef wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Could one explain to me what is the meaning of Promoter?
> Where one find
> explanation of Bioinformatics expressions?
>
One of the most useful tools is the Google Web search service: a search for
"promoter" yields six results among the top ten, that are relevant for the
biological meaning: a DNA sequence pattern that binds RNA-polymerase to allow
transcription of the downstream sequence.
Best regards,
Boris
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Boris Steipe
University of Toronto
Program in Proteomics & Bioinformatics
Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular and Medical Genetics
http://biochemistry.utoronto.ca/steipe
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