Databases & Tools

CisBP

Explore transcription factors and their experimentally measured or inferred DNA-binding motifs across species.

Weirauch, Yang et al. · Cell, 2014

cisbp.ccbr.utoronto.ca

CisBP-RNA

Find RNA-binding proteins and their sequence preferences, browse motifs across species, and explore tools for predicting RNA-binding sites.

Rosado-Tristani et al. · Nucleic Acids Research, 2026

cisbp-rna.ccbr.utoronto.ca

HumanTFs

Browse a curated catalogue of human transcription factors, including evidence for their classification and information about their DNA-binding motifs.

Lambert, Jolma, Campitelli et al. · Cell, 2018

humantfs.ccbr.utoronto.ca

Codebook

Explore the Codebook project's experimental data and binding specificities for previously uncharacterized and poorly characterized human transcription factors.

Jolma et al. · Nature, 2026

codebook.ccbr.utoronto.ca

MoSBAT

Compare DNA or RNA motifs using the similarity of their predicted binding-affinity profiles across sequences.

Lambert, Albu, Hughes & Najafabadi · Bioinformatics, 2016

mosbat.ccbr.utoronto.ca

YeTFaSCo

Explore evaluated yeast transcription-factor motifs, expert curation, and tools for motif comparison and sequence scanning.

de Boer & Hughes · Nucleic Acids Research, 2012

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yetfasco.ccbr.utoronto.ca

RBPDB

Search experimentally observed RNA-binding specificities curated from the literature, browse proteins and experiments, and scan sequences for candidate binding sites.

Cook et al. · Nucleic Acids Research, 2011

rbpdb.ccbr.utoronto.ca

KZNF motifs

Explore reference binding motifs and comparisons of ChIP datasets for human KRAB C2H2 zinc-finger proteins.

Barazandeh, Lambert, Albu & Hughes · Study and data

kznfmotifs.ccbr.utoronto.ca

ZiFRC / B1H-RC

Predict DNA-binding motifs from C2H2 zinc-finger protein sequences using a zinc-finger recognition code.

Najafabadi et al. · C2H2 zinc-finger recognition study

zifrc.ccbr.utoronto.ca