Bioinformatics for the 'bench biologist': How to find regulatory regions in genomic DNA

Nature Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 768-774

  Nardone, Julie ^a   Lee, Dong U ^a   Ansel, K Mark ^a   Rao, Anjana ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GENOMIC DNA; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; RAD50 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL ASSAY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME 11; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; GENOME; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 4444364399     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni0804-768     Document Type: Article

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