FourSig: A method for determining chromosomal interactions in 4C-Seq data

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Williams Jr , Rex L ^a,b   Starmer, Joshua ^a,b   Mugford, Joshua W ^a,b   Calabrese, J Mauro ^a,b   Mieczkowski, Piotr ^a,b   Yee, Della ^a,b   Magnuson, Terry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; IBTK GENE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TROPHOBLAST;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BETA-GLOBINS; CHROMOSOMES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC LOCI; GENOMICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84899819486     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku156     Document Type: Article

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