tfscan

[Lapointe, David]

I have noticed this also and I have had others complain about this. 

Related to this question is where one gets the public version of the
database (containing site.dat)? It should be version 6 by now.

David


> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter robinson [mailto:Peter.Robinson at t-online.de] 
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 3:46 AM
> To: emboss at embnet.org
> Subject: tfscan
> 
> 
> Hi EMBOSSers,
> 
> I have just set up a transfac database on my site with 
> tfextract and then 
> tried out tfscan for the first time. I was suprised to see 
> lots and lots of 
> trivial hits of 2nt in length mixed in with matches that 
> appeared more 
> believable. My input was a file with about 100 FASTA 
> sequences of putative 
> upstream conserved regions, and I otherwise used the default settings.
> 
> What's going on? Is it possible to have tfscan just return 
> hits greater than a 
> certain length (didn't see anything like that in the documentation)?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Peter Robinson
>