A novel DNA sequence periodicity decodes nucleosome positioning

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6228-6236

  Chen, Kaifu ^a,b   Meng, Qingshu ^a,b   Ma, Lina ^a,b   Liu, Qingyou ^c   Tang, Petrus ^d   Chiu, Chungshung ^e   Hu, Songnian ^a   Yu, Jun ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA; FUNGAL DNA; PLANT DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; NUCLEOSOMES; NUCLEOTIDES; PERIODICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 56049115800     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn626     Document Type: Article

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