NSeq: A multithreaded Java application for finding positioned nucleosomes from sequencing data

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Nellore, Abhinav ^a   Bobkov, Konstantin ^a   Howe, Elizabeth ^a   Pankov, Aleksandr ^a   Diaz, Aaron ^a   Song, Jun S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nucleosome; Nucleosome positioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876166912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00320     Document Type: Article

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