ModuleMiner - Improved computational detection of cis-regulatory modules: Are there different modes of gene regulation in embryonic development and adult tissues?

Genome Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Van Loo, Peter ^a,b   Aerts, Stein ^a,b   Thienpont, Bernard ^b   De Moor, Bart ^b   Moreau, Yves ^b   Marynen, Peter ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

EID: 47149110727     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-4-r66     Document Type: Article

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