Nucleosome RNA sequence pattern revealed by multiple alignment of experimentally mapped sequences

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 129-139

  Ioshikhes, Ilya ^a,b   Bolshoy, Alex ^a   Derenshteyn, Konstantin ^c   Borodovsky, Mark ^c   Trifonov, Edward N ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Database; Multiple alignment; Nucleosome pattern; Nucleosome positioning

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA; NUCLEOSOMES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0030595138     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0503     Document Type: Article

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