Automated high-throughput mapping of promoter-enhancer interactions in zebrafish embryos

Nature Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 911-916

  Gehrig, Jochen ^a,b   Reischl, Markus ^a   Va Kalmár, Ẽ ^a   Ferg, Marco ^a   Hadzhiev, Yavor ^a,b   Zaucker, Andreas ^a,b   Song, Chengyi ^a,c   Schindler, Simone ^a   Liebel, Urban ^a   Müller, Ferenc ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; ENHANCER REGION; FISH GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; GENETICS; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 73349128469     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1396     Document Type: Article

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