Genome-wide functional element detection using pairwise statistical alignment outperforms multiple genome footprinting techniques

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2116-2120

  Satija, R ^a   Hein, J ^a   Lunter, G A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENOME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENOME; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; ROC CURVE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77955897282     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq360     Document Type: Article

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