Higo K, Ugawa Y, Iwamoto M, Korenaga T
Department of Genetic Resources, National Institute of Agrobiological Resources, 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba,Ibaraki 305, Japan.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1999 Jan 1;27(1):297-300. doi: 10.1093/nar/27.1.297.
PLACE (http://www.dna.affrc.go.jp/htdocs/PLACE/) is a database of nucleotide sequence motifs found in plant cis-acting regulatory DNA elements. Motifs were extracted from previously published reports on genes in vascular plants. In addition to the motifs originally reported, their variations in other genes or in other plant species in later reports are also compiled. Documents for each motif in the PLACE database contains, in addition to a motif sequence, a brief definition and description of each motif, and relevant literature with PubMed ID numbers and GenBank accession numbers where available. Users can search their query sequences for cis-elements using the Signal Scan program at our web site. The results will be reported in one of the three forms. Clicking the PLACE accession numbers in the result report will open the pertinent motif document. Clicking the PubMed or GenBank accession number in the document will allow users to access to these databases, and to read the of the literature or the annotation in the DNA database. This report summarizes the present status of this database and available tools.
PLACE（http://www.dna.affrc.go.jp/htdocs/PLACE/）是一个关于植物顺式作用调控DNA元件中核苷酸序列基序的数据库。这些基序是从先前发表的维管植物基因报告中提取的。除了最初报告的基序外，后续报告中其他基因或其他植物物种中的基序变异也被收录。PLACE数据库中每个基序的文档除了包含基序序列外，还包含每个基序的简要定义和描述，以及可用的带有PubMed ID号和GenBank登录号的相关文献。用户可以使用我们网站上的Signal Scan程序在其查询序列中搜索顺式元件。结果将以三种形式之一报告。点击结果报告中的PLACE登录号将打开相关的基序文档。点击文档中的PubMed或GenBank登录号将允许用户访问这些数据库，并阅读文献或DNA数据库中的注释。本报告总结了该数据库的现状和可用工具。
