Methyl-Typing: An improved and visualized COBRA software for epigenomic studies

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 739-744

  Yang, Cheng Hong ^a,b   Chuang, Li Yeh ^c   Cheng, Yu Huei ^a   Gu, De Leung ^d   Chen, Chung Ho ^d,e   Chang, Hsueh Wei ^d  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b TOKO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

COBRA; Methylation; Promoter; Restriction enzyme; Software

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN TEKT4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; EPIGENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DATABASE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION MAPPING; WEB BROWSER;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SULFITES;

EID: 77649274178     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.12.026     Document Type: Article

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