Finding and decrypting of promoters contributes to the elucidation of gene function

In Silico Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 249-255

  Werner, Thomas ^a,b  

^a Genomatix GmbH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemokine; Coexpressed genes; Functional context; Gene regulation; Genome annotation; Promoter modeling; Promoter modules; Promoter prediction; RANTES; Transcription factor binding sites

Indexed keywords

RANTES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHEMOKINESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBL NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE DATABASE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0036459745     PISSN: 13866338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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