---
name: "dba"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wise"
version: "2.4.1-27"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dba"
---

# dba(1)

characterising shared regulatory regions of genomic DNA

## NAME

dba — characterising shared regulatory regions of genomic DNA

## SYNOPSIS

**dba** \[*options* ... \]  { *seq1 seq2* }

## DESCRIPTION

dba - standing for Dna Block Aligner, was developed by Niclas Jareborg,  Richard Durbin and Ewan Birney for characterising shared regulatory regions  of genomic DNA, either in upstream regions or introns of genes

The idea was that in these regions there would a series of shared motifs,  perhaps with one or two insertions or deletions but between motifs there  would be any length of sequence.

The subsquent model was a 3 state model which was log-odd'd ratio to a null  model of their being no examples of a motif in the two sequences.

## OPTIONS

- **-h** **-help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-v** **-version**

  Show version of program.

## SEE ALSO

dnal (1), estwise (1), estwisedb (1), genewise (1), genewisedb (1), genomewise (1), promoterwise (1), psw (1), pswdb (1), scanwise (1), scanwise\_server (1).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Philipp Benner mail@philipp-benner.de for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any   later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.