ContDist: A tool for the analysis of quantitative gene and promoter properties

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hackenberg, Michael ^a   Lasso, Gorka ^a,b   Matthiesen, Rune ^a,c  

^a Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer CIBERONC University of Barcelona   (Spain)

^b CIC BIOGUNE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-THROUGHPUT TECHNIQUE; ONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE DATA; QUANTITATIVE FEATURES; REGULATORY ELEMENTS; TISSUE-SPECIFIC GENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

GENE EXPRESSION;

TOOLS;

DNA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; GENE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENES; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 60549105392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-7     Document Type: Article

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