Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA. mlbulyk@rascal.med.harvard.edu
Identifying genomic locations of transcription-factor binding sites, particularly in higher eukaryotic genomes, has been an enormous challenge. Various experimental and computational approaches have been used to detect these sites; methods involving computational comparisons of related genomes have been particularly successful.