Transcriptional networks: Reverse-engineering gene regulation on a global scale

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 638-646

  Chua, Gordon ^a   Robinson, Mark D ^a   Morris, Quaid ^a   Hughes, Timothy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; GENE CONTROL; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 7744225947     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2004.10.009     Document Type: Review

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