Inferring gene regulatory logic from high-throughput measurements of thousands of systematically designed promoters

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 521-530

  Sharon, Eilon ^a   Kalma, Yael ^a   Sharp, Ayala ^a   Raveh Sadka, Tali ^a   Levo, Michal ^a   Zeevi, Danny ^a   Keren, Leeat ^a   Yakhini, Zohar ^b,c   Weinberger, Adina ^a   Segal, Eran ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c AGILENT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPRESSION MEASUREMENTS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENTS; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC CHANGES; TRANS EFFECT;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; GENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YEAST;

BINDING SITES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YEASTS;

EID: 84862002321     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2205     Document Type: Article

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