An alignment-free method to identify candidate orthologous enhancers in multiple Drosophila genomes

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2109-2115

  Arunachalam, Manonmani ^a,b   Jayasurya, Karthik ^b   Tomancak, Pavel ^a   Ohler, Uwe ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, INSECT; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77955877436     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq358     Document Type: Article

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