Ancora: A web resource for exploring highly conserved noncoding elements and their association with developmental regulatory genes

Genome Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Engström, Pär G ^a,b   Fredman, David ^a   Lenhard, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNET; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON; UNTRANSLATED REGION; WEB BROWSER; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY;

METAZOA;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GENOME; HUMANS; INTERNET; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 43549106605     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-2-r34     Document Type: Article

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