Promoter modeling: The case study of mammalian histone promoters

Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2623-2628

  Chowdhary, Rajesh ^a   Ali, R Ayesha ^b   Albig, Werner ^c   Doenecke, Detlef ^c   Bajic, Vladimir B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 20744431915     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti387     Document Type: Article

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