New bioinformatic strategies to rapidly characterize retroviral integration sites of gene therapy vectors

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 542-547

  Giordano, F A ^a,b   Hotz Wagenblart, A ^a   Lauterborn, D ^a   Appelt, J U ^a   Fellenberg, K ^a   Nagy, K Z ^a   Zeller, W J ^a   Suhai, S ^a   Fruehauf, S ^b,c   Laufs, Stephanie ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Paracelsus Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer based data processing; Gene therapy; Retroviral integration

Indexed keywords

RETROVIRUS VECTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; RETROVIRIDAE; SOFTWARE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 35348872062     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/ME0423     Document Type: Article

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