PRIMEGENS-v2: Genome-wide primer design for analyzing DNA methylation patterns of CpG islands

Bioinformatics

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 1837-1842

  Srivastava, Gyan P ^a   Guo, Juyuan ^b   Shi, Huidong ^b   Xu, Dong ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BISULFITE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMEGENS ALGORITHM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 50549102884     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn320     Document Type: Article

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