Integrative analysis of C. elegans modENCODE ChIP-seq data sets to infer gene regulatory interactions

Genome Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 941-953

  Van Nostrand, Eric L ^a,b   Kim, Stuart K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR UNC 62; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

AGING; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POSITION-SPECIFIC SCORING MATRICES; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84878678567     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.152876.112     Document Type: Article

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