GOLEM

GOLEM visualizes regulatory gene motifs and their positions relative to transcription start sites (TSS) and translation start sites (ATG) across plant genomes to enable analysis of motif distribution and association with tissue-specific transcript levels.

Key Features:

• Motif Localization: Locates regulatory motifs relative to TSS or ATG across plant genomes.
• Cross-Species Analysis: Supports comparative analysis across the plant Tree of Life, including Marchantia, Physcomitrium, Amborella, Oryza, Zea, Solanum, and Arabidopsis.
• Visualization of Motif Distribution: Displays motif distributions in relation to transcript levels in specific tissues such as leaves and male reproductive organs and compares these to genome-wide distributions independent of transcription levels.

Scientific Applications:

• Regulation during tissue development: Analyze the role of regulatory motifs in gene expression regulation during developmental stages and tissue-specific contexts.
• Promoter motif recognition: Investigate how motif proximity to TSS or ATG influences recognition by proteins in promoter regions and affects transcription initiation and rate.
• Comparative genomics: Compare motif occurrence and positional patterns across diverse plant species.
• Tissue-specific transcript association: Correlate motif distributions with transcript levels in leaves and male reproductive organs.

Methodology:

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