NPEST: a nonparametric method and a database for transcription start site prediction

Quantitative Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 261-271

  Tatarinova, Tatiana ^a   Kryshchenko, Alona ^a   Triska, Martin ^a,b   Hassan, Mehedi ^b   Murphy, Denis ^b   Neely, Michael ^a   Schumitzky, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

nonparametric maximum likelihood; transcription start site (TSS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969554437     PISSN: 20954689     EISSN: 20954697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40484-013-0022-2     Document Type: Article

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