PAZAR: a framework for collection and dissemination of cis-regulatory sequence annotation

Elodie Portales-Casamar^*¹ , Stefan Kirov^*²^,3 , Jonathan Lim¹ , Stuart Lithwick¹ , Magdalena I Swanson¹ , Amy Ticoll¹ , Jay Snoddy²^,4 and Wyeth W Wasserman¹

¹Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, CFRI, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC., V5Z 4H4, Canada

²Graduate School for Genome Science and Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory-University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA

³Applied Genomics Department, Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Bristol-Myers Squibb, NJ, 08534, USA

⁴Biomedical Informatics Department, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

Genome Biology 2007, 8:R207doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-r207


Published:	28 September 2007

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Molecular biology, Genome studies

Abstract

PAZAR is an open-access and open-source database of transcription factor and regulatory sequence annotation with associated web interface and programming tools for data submission and extraction. Curated boutique data collections can be maintained and disseminated through the unified schema of the mall-like PAZAR repository. The Pleiades Promoter Project collection of brain-linked regulatory sequences is introduced to demonstrate the depth of annotation possible within PAZAR. PAZAR, located at http://www.pazar.info webcite, is open for business.