Searching for regulatory elements in human noncoding sequences

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 399-406

  Duret, Laurent ^a   Bucher, Philipp ^b  

^a Laboratoire de Biométrie   (France)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE; VERTEBRATE;

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EID: 0030927867     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80058-9     Document Type: Article

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