Sequence signatures extracted from proximal promoters can be used to predict distal enhancers

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Taher, Leila ^a,b   Smith, Robin P ^c   Kim, Mee J ^c   Ahituv, Nadav ^c   Ovcharenko, Ivan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL TYPE; CLASSIFIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; LIVER; MACHINE LEARNING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84885990989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-10-r117     Document Type: Article

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