BEST - Binding-site Estimation Suite of Tools

Overview

BEST is a suite of motif-finding programs, including four motif-finding programs: AlignACE, BioProspector, Consensus, MEME, and the optimization program BioOptimizer configured for each of these programs.

BEST was compiled on Linux, and thus it can only be run on Linux machines. Two compiled versions are provided to satisfy different linux versions. To check the linux version, type "gcc -v"

Download

• BEST1.0.tar.gz (Applicable to old linux versions, such as Red Hat Linux 7.*, 8.*, SuSE 8.*)
• BEST1.0.1.tar.gz (Aplicable to new linux versions, such as Red Hat Linux 3.2.*, 3.3.*, SuSE 9.2)
• BEST.tar.gz (Source code version, which can be compiled if the target linux machine contains Qt libraries)
• cBEST1.0.tar.gz (A command line version for BEST)

Documentation

• To download the documentation for BEST as PDF file click here
• To download the documentation for BEST as Microsoft Word file click here

Reference

Che D., Jensen, S., Cai, L. and Liu JS. BEST: Binding-site Estimation Suite of Tools. Bioinformatics, 21(12):2909-2911.

Contact

Email: dsche@uga.edu, jliu@stat.harvard.edu

Mirror WWW: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~junliu/BEST/

Dongsheng Che and Jun Liu

Last updated 08/16/2007