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*** TRANSFAC Release 4.0 (Export from 17.12.1999, 16.00 MEZ) ***
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T e c h n i c a l I n f o r m a t i o n
There are 6 TRANSFAC data files:
site.dat
factor.dat
cell.dat
class.dat
matrix.dat
gene.dat
The data files are ASCII files, all of them being written on IBM-PC
compatible systems.
The compressed file (transfac40.tar.Z) has been generated using the
Unix command "compress" - to decompress use "uncompress".
The files have been converted with DOS2UNIX.
The compressed file (transfac40.zip) has been generated using the
the DOS ZIP-Programm ftp://transfac.gbf.de/pub/transfac/pkzip.exe -
to decompress use "pkunzip.exe -x [Filename]".
If you use DOS version ftp://transfac.gbf.de/pub/transfac/pkunzip.exe
you have to rename the ZIP-file to the 8 + 3 limitation of DOS (e. g.
"transfac.zip"). WinZip can extract the long filenames.
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D I S C L A I M E R
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registration form. Developers who intend to make TRANSFAC publicly
available are kindly asked to indicate this properly within the
registration form. In this case it is mandatory to include the sentence
The TRANSFAC database is free for non-commercial use.
For commercial use the TRANSFAC databases and programs
have to be licensed. Please read the DISCLAIMER !
on the corresponding TRANSFAC entry page with a link to the disclaimer
at the URL
<A HREF="http://transfac.gbf.de/TRANSFAC/disclaimer.html">DISCLAIMER</A>.
Neither the redistribution of TRANSFAC files to third parties nor the
distribution of parts of TRANSFAC files or derivative products to any
third parties is allowed without express permission. Also, any
modification of the TRANSFAC flat files and HTML resources strictly
depends on written permission by the authors.
Publication of results obtained with the aid of TRANSFAC resources
should cite:
Heinemeyer, T., Chen, X., Karas, H., Kel, A. E., Kel, O. V., Liebich, I.,
Meinhardt, T., Reuter, I., Schacherer, F. and Wingender, E.:
Expanding the TRANSFAC database towards an expert system of regulatory
molecular mechanisms.
Nucleic Acids Res. 27, 318-322 (1999).
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and ftp://transfac.gbf.de/ and ftp://ftp.transfac.de server
(hereafter referred to as This Site) and all data therein or any of the
authorized TRANSFAC mirror sites may be used for commercial approaches
without the express written consent. Commercial users of the TRANSFAC
database should contact:
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We highly appreciate any suggestions for continuing this work. Please,
send any requests, questions or suggestions to:
e-mail: transfac@gbf.de
phone: +49 - 531 - 6181 427
FAX: +49 - 531 - 6181 266
OR
e-mail: info@biobase.de
phone: +49 - 531 - 26036 0
fax: +49 - 531 - 26036 70
To download the complete ASCII flat files, visit the following download
site:
http://transfac.gbf.de/cgi-bin/download/download.pl
TRANSFAC Documentation / E. Wingender et al., 04.02.2000
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