Unraveling transcriptional control and cis-regulatory codes using the software suite GeneACT

Genome Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Cheung, Tom Hiu ^a   Kwan, Yin Lam ^b   Hamady, Micah ^b   Liu, Xuedong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MAMMAL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MOUSE; RAT;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; RATS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33845630314     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-10-r97     Document Type: Article

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