i-cisTarget: An integrative genomics method for the prediction of regulatory features and cis-regulatory modules

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Herrmann, Carl ^a,b   Van De Sande, Bram ^c   Potier, Delphine ^a,c   Aerts, Stein ^c  

^a Aix Marseille university   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CIS REGULATORY MODULE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DATABASE; IN VIVO STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY FEATURE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOMICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84867313376     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks543     Document Type: Article

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