ZFN-Site searches genomes for zinc finger nuclease target sites and off-target sites

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cradick, Thomas J ^a   Ambrosini, Giovanna ^b,c   Iseli, Christian ^b   Bucher, Philipp ^b,c   McCaffrey, Anton P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEAVAGE EVENTS; GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENOME BROWSERS; GENOME SEQUENCES; RESTRICTION ENZYMES; TARGET SEQUENCES; THERAPEUTIC GENES; ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE;

SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB; ZINC;

GENES;

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; ENDONUCLEASE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING;

BASE SEQUENCE; ENDONUCLEASES; GENOME; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, CCR5; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 79955792807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-152     Document Type: Article

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