Finding the needle in the haystack: Computational strategies for discovering regulatory sequences in genomes

Current Genomics

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 557-568

  Ovcharenko, Ivan ^a,b   Loots, Gabriela G ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACCURACY; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAT; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DATABASE;

EID: 0141839748     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389202033490169     Document Type: Review

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