DIANA-miRGen v3.0: Accurate characterization of microRNA promoters and their regulators

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue D1, 2016, Pages D190-D195

  Georgakilas, Georgios ^a,b,c   Vlachos, Ioannis S ^a,b,c   Zagganas, Konstantinos ^d,e   Vergoulis, Thanasis ^d   Paraskevopoulou, Maria D ^a,b   Kanellos, Ilias ^d,f   Tsanakas, Panayiotis ^f,g   Dellis, Dimitris ^g   Fevgas, Athanasios ^a   Dalamagas, Theodore ^d   Hatzigeorgiou, Artemis G ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d Athena Research Center   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^f NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS NTUA   (Greece)

^g Greek Research and Technology Network SA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84976872185     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1254     Document Type: Article

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