Computer Software of Eukaryotic Promoter Analysis

Since the initiation of the Human Genome Project (1 –3 ), project originators have envisioned a need for the development of computer software programs to analyze and annotate the massive amount of sequence data expected to be produced as a result of sequencing efforts (4 ). Efforts directed toward this goal include the development of computer software for gene and gene feature recognition (5 ), including the recognition and functional characterization of eukaryotic promoter sequences.