Regulatory elements and expression profiles

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 400-407

  Bucher, Philipp ^a  

^a SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0033150947     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(99)80054-2     Document Type: Article

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