Relating mammalian replication program to large-scale chromatin folding

2013 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, ACM-BCB 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 799-810

  Audit, B ^a   Baker, A ^a   Boulos, R E ^a   Julienne, H ^a   Arneodo, A ^a   Chen, C L ^a   d'Aubenton Carafa, Y ^a   Thermes, C ^a   Goldar, A ^b   Guilbaud, G ^c   Rappailles, A ^c   Hyrien, O ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Measurement; Theory

Indexed keywords

3D ORGANIZATIONS; CHROMATIN FIBERS; HUMAN GENOMES; INTERACTION GRAPHS; POLARITY CHANGE; REPLICATION FORK; THEORY; TIMING PROFILES;

GENES; MAMMALS; MEASUREMENTS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 84888151294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2506583.2506699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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