In a similar line of thought, the need for specific sequence motif identification in RNA and DNA has spawned several databases. Even a casual user can generate results of interest. Other options at the site include a full classification system for transcription factors, the ability to browse the thousands of entries by a number of parameters, and on-line documentation. This site allows the user to input as many as eight protein sequences for multiple alignment. Results are returned in the form of a web page or through e-mail.
Various parameters are adjustable within the algorithm.
By limiting its resources to these selected functional primer sets, it has the potential of yielding significant temporal and financial savings to molecular biologists world wide. While many readers may be alternately enthused or bored by the WWW sites that I've chosen to review, this article and its predecessor only scratched the surface of biological databases and information available on the internet. With continuing increases in both the specificity and power of these utilities as well as the sophistication of internet biologists, the future of molecular biology on the internet is very promising.