Unravelling the hidden DNA structural/physical code provides novel insights on promoter location

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 7220-7230

  Durán, Elisa ^a   Djebali, Sarah ^b   González, Santi ^a,c   Flores, Oscar ^a   Mercader, Josep Maria ^a,c   Guigó, Roderic ^b   Torrents, David ^a,c   Soler López, Montserrat ^a   Orozco, Modesto ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^c BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DNA STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC CODE; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTONES; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84883470857     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt511     Document Type: Article

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