Training-free atomistic prediction of nucleosome occupancy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6293-6298

  Minary, Peter ^a   Levitt, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Large scale optimization; Sequence threading; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BINDING SITE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENERGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOMICS; IN VITRO STUDY; NUCLEOSOME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

LARGE-SCALE OPTIMIZATION; SEQUENCE THREADING; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, FUNGAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899627202     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404475111     Document Type: Article

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