TRACER: A resource to study the regulatory architecture of the mouse genome

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Chao Kung ^a   Symmons, Orsolya ^b   Uslu, Veli Vural ^b   Tsujimura, Taro ^b   Ruf, Sandra ^b   Smedley, Damian ^a,c   Spitz, François ^b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosomal engineering; Gene regulation and expression; Genome organisation; Mouse models of human structural variation; Regulatory landscapes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE NUMBER; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REPORTER GENE; TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON AND RECOMBINASE ASSOCIATED CHROMOSOMAL ENGINEERING RESOURCE DATABASE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME; INTERNET; MICE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84875552374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-215     Document Type: Article

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