A novel approach to identifying regulatory motifs in distantly related genomes

Genome Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2005, Pages

  Van Hellemont, Ruth ^a   Monsieurs, Pieter ^a   Thijs, Gert ^a   De Moor, Bart ^a   Van de Peer, Yves ^b   Marchal, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; EYE PROTEINS; GENOME; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 33745106601     PISSN: 1474760X     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2005-6-13-r113     Document Type: Article

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