A computational method is described which uses the process of
cis-regulatory module evolution to identify conserved sequence patches
which exhibit suppression of change by snp/indel occurrence, including
determining sequence similarities significantly greater than random
expectation on selected genome sequences from two or more species in
sequences that lie outside of protein coding regions, sorting the
similarities for conserved patches of single nucleotide polymorphisms
(SNPs) and insertion/deletions (indels). and selecting such patches to
identify cis-regulatory modules. Further, the disclosed method is
practiced in the absence of having to execute multiple interspecific
sequence comparison analysis, where such identified cis-regulatory
modules are used to produce libraries and arrays containing such
cis-regulatory modules.