Quantitative Modeling of a Gene's Expression from Its Intergenic Sequence

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Samee, Md Abul Hassan ^a   Sinha, Saurabh ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ANTERIOR POSTERIORS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXPRESSION PATTERNS; GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS; GENES EXPRESSION; INDEPENDENT CONTRIBUTIONS; MULTI-DOMAINS; PRIOR-KNOWLEDGE; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; TWO TIERS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OVERLAPPING GENE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, INTERGENIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84897466420     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003467     Document Type: Article

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