ISMARA: automated modeling of genomic signals as a democracy of regulatory motifs

Genome Research

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 869-884

  Balwierz, Piotr J ^a   Pachkov, Mikhail ^a   Arnold, Phil ^a   Gruber, Andreas J ^a   Zavolan, Mihaela ^a   Van Nimwegen, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHROMATIN; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR MOTIF ACTIVITY RESPONSE ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WEB BROWSER; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN GENOME; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PROCEDURES; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84899806626     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.169508.113     Document Type: Article

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