ChIP-seq: Advantages and challenges of a maturing technology

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 669-680

  Park, Peter J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

CHIP SEQ; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 70349312354     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2641     Document Type: Review

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