Expression-guided in silico evaluation of candidate Cis regulatory codes for Drosophila muscle founder cells

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 439-453

  Philippakis, Anthony A ^a,b   Busser, Brian W ^a   Gisselbrecht, Stephen S ^a   He, Fangxue Sherry ^a,b   Estrada, Beatriz ^a   Michelson, Alan M ^a   Bulyk, Martha L ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CIS-REGULATORY MODULES; COMBINATORIAL MODELING; DROSOPHILLA; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; GENES EXPRESSION; IN-SILICO; KNOWLEDGE VALIDATION; SILICO EVALUATIONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

MUSCLE;

RAS PROTEIN; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MESODERM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

METAZOA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; WING;

EID: 33646930634     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020053     Document Type: Article

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