Computational tools and resources for prediction and analysis of gene regulatory regions in the chick genome

Genesis

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 311-324

  Khan, Mohsin A F ^a   Soto Jimenez, Luz Mayela ^a,b   Howe, Timothy ^a   Streit, Andrea ^c   Sosinsky, Alona ^d   Stern, Claudio D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chick embryo; cis regulatory regions; Enhancer analysis; Gene regulatory networks; Genomics tools; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHICK; CHROMOSOME 3; CPG ISLAND; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME; GENOMICS; INTERNET; SOFTWARE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84878184903     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22375     Document Type: Review

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