Gene regulation in the intraerythrocytic cycle of Plasmodium falciparum

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1484-1491

  Jurgelenaite, Rasa ^a,c   Dijkstra, Tjeerd M H ^a   Kocken, Clemens H M ^b   Heskes, Tom ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 66349129272     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp179     Document Type: Article

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