TY - JOUR A1 - Elnitski, Laura A1 - Jin, Victor X. A1 - Farnham, Peggy J. A1 - Jones, Steven J.M. T1 - Locating mammalian transcription factor binding sites: A survey of computational and experimental techniques Y1 - 2006/12/01 JF - Genome Research JO - Genome Research SP - 1455 EP - 1464 DO - 10.1101/gr.4140006 VL - 16 IS - 12 UR - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/16/12/1455.abstract N2 - Fields such as genomics and systems biology are built on the synergism between computational and experimental techniques. This type of synergism is especially important in accomplishing goals like identifying all functional transcription factor binding sites in vertebrate genomes. Precise detection of these elements is a prerequisite to deciphering the complex regulatory networks that direct tissue specific and lineage specific patterns of gene expression. This review summarizes approaches for in silico, in vitro, and in vivo identification of transcription factor binding sites. A variety of techniques useful for localized- and high-throughput analyses are discussed here, with emphasis on aspects of data generation and verification. ER -