methBLAST and methPrimerDB: Web-tools for PCR based methylation analysis

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pattyn, Filip ^a   Hoebeeck, Jasmien ^a   Robbrecht, Piet ^a   Michels, Evi ^a   De Paepe, Anne ^a   Bottu, Guy ^b   Coornaert, David ^b   Herzog, Robert ^b   Speleman, Frank ^a   Vandesompele, Jo ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY REDUCTION; EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES; SPECIFICITY ANALYSIS; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT;

ASSAYS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; GENES; METHYLATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUERY PROCESSING; TOOLS;

ALKYLATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE DATABASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HUMAN; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DATABASE; RAT;

HYDROGEN SULFITE; PRIMER DNA; SULFITE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; INTERNET; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; SOFTWARE; SULFITES;

EID: 33751399295     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-496     Document Type: Article

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