Toucan: Deciphering the cis-regulatory logic of coregulated genes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1753-1764

  Aerts, Stein ^a   Thijs, Gert ^a   Coessens, Bert ^a   Staes, Mik ^a   Moreau, Yves ^a   De Moor, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AUTOMATION; BINDING SITE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBL NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE DATABASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; E2F TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER; MUSCLES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0037443976     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg268     Document Type: Review

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