Systematic identification of mammalian regulatory motifs' target genes and functions

Nature Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 347-353

  Warner, Jason B ^a   Philippakis, Anthony A ^a,b   Jaeger, Savina A ^a   He, Fangxue Sherry ^a,d   Lin, Jolinta ^a,c   Bulyk, Martha L ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENOME; HUMAN; ISOMERISM; MAMMAL; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; GENOME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 41449086977     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1188     Document Type: Article

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