Fine-tuning enhancer models to predict transcriptional targets across multiple genomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Aerts, Stein ^a,b   van Helden, Jacques ^c   Sand, Olivier ^c   Hassan, Bassem A ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EYELESS;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOME; GENOMICS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENHANCER REGION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 36048948489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001115     Document Type: Article

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