Affinity Density: A novel genomic approach to the identification of transcription factor regulatory targets

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1617-1624

  Hazelett, Dennis J ^a   Lakeland, Daniel L ^b   Weiss, Joseph B ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TARGETING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME; GENOMICS; MICE; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 67649170966     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp282     Document Type: Article

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