Conserved motifs and prediction of regulatory modules in caenorhabditis elegans

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 469-481

  Zhao, Guoyan ^a   Ihuegbu, Nnamdi ^a   Lee, Mo ^b   Schriefer, Larry ^a   Wang, Ting ^a   Stormo, Gary D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Cis regulatory element; Cis regulatory module; Transcription factor; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875985531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.111.001081     Document Type: Article

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