In the first set of data (Part2-Upstream1.txt), CLUSTALW did not find any matches. DiAlign found a few matches in some of the strings. The most promising seemed to be the following pattern in four of the seven sequences: MJ0564 230 -ATTTAATTAA APE2166 115 ----------- TVN0819 108 GATTCCAAAAA Ta0849 55 GCTTTCACAAA MTH1683 69 TATTTATAAAA VNG2283G 28 ----------- AF2255 56 ----------- In the second set of data (Part2-Upstream2.txt), CLUSTALW again did not find any matches. DiAlign again found a few candidates, the most promising of which seemed to be: Ta0946 30 AACTTTTTGCATTG TVN1090 97 AACTTTTCACTATA MJ1555 202 AATTATTAACCTTA MTH226 62 AAATATTCACTTTA PH1020 44 AATTTTTCA----- PAB0646 40 GGTTCTTCA----- In the third set of data (Part2-Upstream3.txt), CLUSTALW again did not find any matches. DiAlign didn't find any really good candidates either. It did find the pattern "AGCGATG CCAATGAGGA GGGATAGCCT TCTC" occuring almost identically in two of the five sequences (PAB1782 and PH0965), but they didn't occur in any of the other sequences.