Elucidation of directionality for co-expressed genes: Predicting intra-operon termination sites

Bioinformatics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 209-214

  Gupta, Anshuman ^a   Maranas, Costas D ^b   Albert, Réka ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; GLUCURONIC ACID; PENTOSE; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MICROPROCESSOR; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 32144455024     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti780     Document Type: Article

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