Cellular resolution models for even skipped regulation in the entire Drosophila embryo

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Ilsley, Garth R ^a,b   Fisher, Jasmin ^c,d   Apweiler, Rolf ^a   DePace, Angela H ^e   Luscombe, Nicholas M ^a,b,f,g  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYOLOGY; EVEN SKIPPED GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAINING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETICS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84881520887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/elife.00522     Document Type: Article

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