Application of a systems approach to study developmental gene regulation

Biophysical Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 245-253

  Ho, Joshua W K ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

ChIP seq; Computational biophysics; Developmental signaling; Epigenomics; Gene regulatory network; Histone modification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873159388     PISSN: 18672450     EISSN: 18672469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12551-012-0092-9     Document Type: Review

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