Triplexator: Detecting nucleic acid triple helices in genomic and transcriptomic data

Genome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1372-1381

  Buske, Fabian A ^a   Bauer, Denis C ^a,b   Mattick, John S ^a,c   Bailey, Timothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANINE; LIPOCORTIN 4; NUCLEIC ACID; PYRIMIDINE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHROMATIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; TRIPLE FORMING OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRIPLEXATOR;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA STABILITY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84863557177     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.130237.111     Document Type: Article

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