Integrating motif, DNA accessibility and gene expression data to build regulatory maps in an organism

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3998-4012

  Blatti, Charles ^a   Kazemian, Majid ^b   Wolfe, Scot ^c   Brodsky, Michael ^c,d   Sinha, Saurabh ^a,e  

^a Department of Computer Science University of Illinois ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYOLOGY; ENHANCER REGION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84930224883     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv195     Document Type: Article

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