Table 1

Genome-wide databases of candidate transcription factor binding sites

Number
Database properties
Number of genes
Number of regions
Number of binding sites

1
Human-mouse conserved regions, 10 kilobases 5' of TSS
8,759
22,582
1,858,800
2
(1) + limited to binding sites occurring both in the human and mouse CNS
8,759
22,582
878,338
3
(2) + correct for possible mouse TSS differences (add 100 kilobases of mouse sequence 5' and 3')
11,653
35,021
1,316,927

CNS, conserved noncoding sequence; TSS, transcription start site.

Van Loo et al. Genome Biology 2008 9:R66   doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-4-r66