DNA motifs and sequence periodicities

In Silico Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 71-78

  Kumar, Lokesh ^a   Futschik, Matthias ^a   Herzel, Hanspeter ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Correlation; DNA bendability; Genomic DNA; Motif; Nucleosomes; Periodicities; Poly(A) sequences; Supercoiling

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; TETRAMER;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SUPERCOILING; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OSCILLATION; PERIODICITY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; GENOME, HELMINTH; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLY A; POLY T;

EID: 33745222322     PISSN: 13866338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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