The KLAB toolbox: A suite of in-house software applications for epigenetic analysis

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 97-108

  Naismith, Laura ^a   Lalancette, Claudia ^a   Platts, Adrian E ^a   Krawetz, Stephen A ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

analysis suite; conservation; expression; PCR; transcriptionfactors

Indexed keywords

PROTAMINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASES, GENETIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PROTAMINES; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 46249124624     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19396360801935644     Document Type: Article

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