TRACTS: A program to map oligopurine. Oligopyrimidine and other binary DNA tracts

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 3682-3685

  Gal, Moshe ^b   Katz, Tzvi ^b   Ovadia, Amir ^b   Yagil, Gad ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BioMining Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53; PURINE NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; DNA; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBL NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE DATABASE; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENBANK; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; INTRON; MAMMAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; GENES, P53; HUMANS; INTERNET; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0041620247     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg625     Document Type: Article

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