Tags: Biological Database, Database.
RegulonDB is a database of the regulatory network of Escherichia coli K-12.A Database is a model of a piece of the world. In this sense RegulonDB is a model of the complex regulation of transcription initiation or regulatory network of the cell. On the other hand it is also a model of the organization of the genes in transcription units operons and simple and complex regulons. In this regard RegulonDB is a computational model of mechanisms of transcriptional regulation.
