Web-based tools and approaches to study long-range gene regulation in Metazoa

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 231-242

  Fredman, David ^a   Engström, Pär G ^b   Lenhard, Boris ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d BCCS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Comparative genomics; Conserved non coding elements; Enhancers; Gene regulation; Genomic regulatory blocks

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P300;

BIOINFORMATICS; CPG ISLAND; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYNTENY; WEB BROWSER;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERNET;

METAZOA;

EID: 70349619801     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elp023     Document Type: Review

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