Transcription factor and microRNA motif discovery: The Amadeus platform and a compendium of metazoan target sets

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1180-1189

  Linhart, Chaim ^a   Halperin, Yonit ^a   Shamir, Ron ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

METAZOA;

EID: 46449123335     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.076117.108     Document Type: Article

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