Toward single-molecule optical mapping of the epigenome

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 14-26

  Levy Sakin, Michal ^a   Grunwald, Assaf ^a   Kim, Soohong ^b   Gassman, Natalie R ^b   Gottfried, Anna ^c   Antelman, Josh ^b   Kim, Younggyu ^b   Ho, Sam O ^b   Samuel, Robin ^b   Michalet, Xavier ^b   Lin, Ron R ^b   Dertinger, Thomas ^b   Kim, Andrew S ^b   Chung, Sangyoon ^b   Colyer, Ryan A ^b   Weinhold, Elmar ^c   Weiss, Shimon ^b   Ebenstein, Yuval ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

chromatin; epigenetics; fluorescence microscopy; methylation; nanoscopy; nanotechnology; optical mapping; single molecule

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; EPIGENETICS; NANOSCOPY; OPTICAL MAPPING; SINGLE MOLECULE;

ALKYLATION; DNA; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENES; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MAPPING; METHYLATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

MOLECULES;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENOME;

EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84893484446     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4050694     Document Type: Review

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