nuScore: A web-interface for nucleosome positioning predictions

Bioinformatics

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1456-1458

  Tolstorukov, Michael Y ^a   Choudhary, Vidhu ^b   Olson, Wilma K ^c   Zhurkin, Victor B ^d   Park, Peter J ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CALCULATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENERGY COST; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOSOME; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 45449093785     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn212     Document Type: Article

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