EpiDiff: Entropy-based quantitative identification of differential epigenetic modification regions from epigenomes

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 655-658

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Su, Jangzhong ^a   Yu, Di ^b   Wu, Qiong ^c   Yan, Haidan ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATIC ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CHROMATIN MODIFICATION; DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENE; EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION; INTEGRATED SOFTWARE; QUANTITATIVE IDENTIFICATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

BIOINFORMATICS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

GENES;

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DNA METHYLATION; ENTROPY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENOME; HUMAN;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; ENTROPY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME; HUMANS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84886501367     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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