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Describe how you would study/characterize an unknown eukaryotic gene promoter (what methods you would use, what you would be looking for).
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Eukaryotes have specific sequence like conserved sequence "TATA" box where RNA polymerase binds and start the transcription. RNA polymerase recognized the specific specific sequence in eukaryotes that are different from prokaryotes. There are many in silico methods are available that recognize these specific sequence in the gene sequence and help in the identification of promoter sequence.

As, many organism, genome sequence are completely annotated now, there promoter sequences have been identified and computer program have been trained on these annotated promoter sequences of eukaryotes. For example , hidden Markov model, neural network, several algorithms have been designed that are able to recognize specific conserved sequences that are known as promoter.

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