Table 1.

JASPAR databases

Database	Number of models	Scope	Species coverage	When to use
JASPAR CORE	138	Curated, non-redundant matrix models	Multi-cellular eukaryotes	‘Standard’ promoter analysis
JASPAR FAM	11	Familial ‘consensus’ patterns for major structural families of transcription factors	Multi-cellular eukaryotes	Matrix-to-matrix comparison and classification, or as prior knowledge for pattern finders
JASPAR PHYLOFACTS	174	Evolutionary conserved patterns in 5′ promoter regions	Multi-cellular eukaryotes	As a complement to JASPAR CORE for large-scale studies
JASPAR POLII	13	Core promoter element models	Multi-cellular eukaryotes	Core promoter analysis
JASPAR CNE	233	Motifs overrepresented in vertebrate highly conserved non-coding elements	Human	Analysis of regulatory content of long-range enhancers
JASPAR SPLICE	6a	Splice sites	Humana	Splice site analysis

^aExpansion under way.