Genome-wide polycomb target gene prediction in Drosophila melanogaster

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 5848-5863

  Zeng, Jia ^a   Kirk, Brian D ^b   Gou, Yufeng ^b   Wang, Qinghua ^a   Ma, Jianpeng ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIPREDICTOR METHOD; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SCREENING; INSECT GENOME; JPREDICTOR METHOD; KERNEL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENOME, INSECT; GENOMICS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SOFTWARE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84864450909     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks209     Document Type: Article

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