Re-evaluation of G-quadruplex propensity with G4Hunter

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1746-1759

  Bedrat, Amina ^a,b   Lacroix, Laurent ^c   Mergny, Jean Louis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b INSTITUT EUROPÉEN DE CHIMIE ET BIOLOGIE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; G4HUNTER ALGORITHM; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; ALGORITHM; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION;

ALGORITHMS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA;

EID: 84960517263     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw006     Document Type: Article

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